Tag: MAHIR ALI articles
Going nuclear | Mahir Ali
HOW do you infuriate France and further antagonise China at one stroke? Such questions rarely, if ever, arise in international relations. Even in theory,...
Un-wonderful world | Mahir Ali
AT the height of the Cold War in the 1950s-60s, US cultural initiatives seemed to be a relatively innocuous means of exerting soft power....
Wars of terror | Mahir Ali
EARLY last month, a group representing family members of Americans killed on Sept 11, 2001, informed Joe Biden he wouldn’t be welcome at...
Gone at last – Mahir Ali
THE final American military flight out of Hamid Karzai International Airport took off a day before the scheduled Aug 31 deadline, symbolically ending...
Apocalypse soon?- Mahir Ali
IT’S hardly a coincidence that the sixth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) arrives amid copious evidence of the catastrophes propelled...
Off the planet – Mahir Ali
IN the pioneering phase of human space exploration, which can roughly be dated to the dozen years between the first Soviet Sputnik in 1957...
Et tu, Tunisia? – Mahir Ali
IN the aftermath of what came to be known a decade ago as the Arab Spring, Tunisia stood out on two counts. It was...
Hushed exit – Mahir Ali
IN one of his earliest published works, the World War I poet Wilfred Owen describes a trainload of young Englishmen unceremoniously being dispatched...
Yahya’s enablers – Mahir Ali
THE hill station Nathiagali was abuzz with unusual activity in early July 50 years ago. There was a visible military and police presence, notably...
Peruvian paralysis – Mahir Ali
IT’S not unusual for battle lines in the class war to be delineated more clearly in Latin America than elsewhere, and the fault lines...