Things categorized as 'Mahir Ali'
October 8th by Mahir Ali.
UNTIL as recently as a year ago, the conflict in Iraq was being portrayed by the primary aggressor as a well-intentioned intervention gone wrong, while Afghanistan was supposed to be ...
September 24th by Mahir Ali.
SMALL government good, big government bad. That’s the traditional neoliberal mantra, and it’s been the guiding philosophy behind deregulation since the birth of Reaganomics in the 1980s. The best thing ...
September 17th by Mahir Ali.
NEARLY three decades ago, when Gen Ziaul Haq sought to dramatise the situation on the border with Afghanistan, he dragged Zbigniew Brzezinski to the vicinity of the Khyber Pass and ...
August 13th by Mahir Ali.
IT would have been possible to contemplate with greater equanimity the prospect of President Pervez Musharraf’s impeachment had it been possible to take his adversaries at their word.
Their record over ...