Tag: MAHIR ALI
Don’t mention it – Mahir Ali
AMID the intensifying sabre-rattling over Taiwan, the doyen of American whistleblowers, Daniel Ellsberg, deemed it important to publicise his nation’s nuclear war gaming during...
Killing field- Mahir Ali
WELL before he plucked up the courage to timorously call for a ceasefire, Joe Biden has been echoing the mantra recited by a...
Israeli flashpoint – Mahir Ali
RESISTANCE to the latest bout of attempted ethnic cleansing in the Old City has fed into spiralling violence in Jerusalem in the days leading...
So far so good? – Mahir Ali
IT is somewhat disconcerting to find myself almost in agreement with US Senator Lindsey Graham, a particularly odious representative of the Republican leadership...
Wit and wisdom – Mahir Ali
I WISH I did not have to write today’s column. Not because of its content but because of the circumstances.
The fact that thousands of...
A man’s world – Mahir Ali
IT wasn’t a particularly sensitive choice of words when the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, declared on Monday that his government would henceforth look...
Our parting blow – Mahir Ali
IT would be tricky to designate the starting point of the subcontinent’s second partition. The seeds, it could be argued, were sown during the...
Fight or flight? – Mahir Ali
IN recent years, as the negotiations phase in the 21st-century variant of the Great Game has gathered pace, every cliché in the diplomatic playbook...
Blood and oil – Mahir Ali
THERE was nothing new in the US intelligence assessment about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi released last week. Anyone with even a few...
A joy forever. – Mahir Ali
THE headstone above a final resting place dug in Rome’s non-Catholic cemetery 200 years ago today bears the indelible inscription: “This grave contains...