Things categorized as 'Mahir Ali'
September 1st by Mahir Ali.
“Cricket is an art, a means of national expression,” wrote C.L.R. James in a 1966 essay on the batting prowess of Rohan Kanhai. More than four decades later, the first ...
August 26th by Mahir Ali.
It appears unlikely that the political disarray into which Australia has stumbled in the wake of last Saturday’s election can satisfactorily be resolved without going to another poll. That is ...
April 21st by Mahir Ali.
Given that the mandate of the United Nations commission of inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto did not extend to identifying the culprits, its value depends ultimately on the ...
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 ...
