Raoof Hasan

Raoof Hasan

The writer is a political analyst and the Executive Director of the Regional Peace Institute. He can be reached at: [email protected]; Twitter: @RaoofHasan.

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Et tu, Brute?

Military being the target, all constraints are erasedCandid Corner“Great is the issue at stake, greater than it may appear, whether a man is to be good or bad. And how will anyone be pro

Dec 21, 2019
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Banishing demons, stirring hope

Candid Corner For we have stared deep into the alley at death itself “Or, else, I’d try to force myself to fall in love. In fact, I did it twice, and I suffered, gentle

Dec 14, 2019
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Mafias breeding mafias

Silence in the face of crime speaks of complicity Candid Corner “He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself o

Dec 7, 2019
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Half-way to perdition

A generational undertaking to cultivate reform and methodCandid Corner “Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government in

Nov 30, 2019
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Matching crime with crime

Candid Corner A concerted and coordinated effort to create judicial tyranny “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in

Nov 23, 2019
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Infatuation with crime

Candid Corner Espousal of a culture wrapped in shrouds of untruths “The silence just allowed the echoes of the question to play out in Nox’s mind, reminding him of his

Nov 17, 2019
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Jemima’s cousin, ‘Wiki’

Candid Corner Unmasking a cesspool of bigotry and hatred “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This mak

Nov 9, 2019
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Subversion within

Breeding anarchy, rendering a difficult country ungovernableCandid Corner“On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you wi

Nov 2, 2019
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Politics and its poisonous fallout

Candid Corner Loyalty to self-undermining the interest of the state “There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to manage than

Oct 27, 2019
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The dialectics of the baton charge

Candid Corner False, fabricated and delusional narratives riding the waves “Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myse

Oct 19, 2019
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Forever weaving a web of deception

Candid Corner When a desirable slant is more important than the news “Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it is not deceptive. A liar knows that he is

Sep 28, 2019