Posts by Mahir Ali
Voting for change
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THIS week’s by-electoral landslide for Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD),...
April 4, 2012
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Hard times never went away
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“IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...
March 28, 2012
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Self-interest in Afghanistan
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“I been knocking on the door/ That holds the throne/ I been looking for the map/ That leads me home/...
March 21, 2012
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Balochistan in the limelight
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“IF Pakistan wants to treat us as a sovereign people, we are ready to extend our friendship. But if...
March 14, 2012
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Tears of a Russian clown
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MOSCOW, according to the title of an Academy Award-winning Soviet film from 1980, does not believe in...
March 7, 2012
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Bonfire of the vanities down under
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AN unusual phenomenon was witnessed in Washington a week ago, when the visiting foreign minister of Australia...
February 29, 2012
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Spring may not come again
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“YEMENIS prepare to vote Saleh out of office” was The Guardian’s slightly disconcerting headline...
February 22, 2012
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Divine right of Kims
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BACK in the mid-1970s, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was so impressed by a meticulously choreographed children’s...
February 1, 2012
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Lady Gaga’s greatest hits
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HAVING arrived in Britain on a student visa little more than a year into her first term as prime minister,...
January 25, 2012
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Links in the feud chain
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AFTER the army chief met his putative boss last week after a long interval, presidential spokesman Farhatullah...
January 18, 2012
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Ready, unsteady, go…
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THE year has only just begun. There`s nearly 10 months to go before American voters get the opportunity...
January 11, 2012
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The past is prelude, perhaps
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QUERIED about the significance of the French Revolution of 1789, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai famously...
January 4, 2012
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Harder times ahead
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A FLURRY of activity in the dying days of a tumultuous year strongly suggests that, whatever tomorrow...
December 28, 2011
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He shall not be moved
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ALMOST every observer who has commented on this month’s post-election protests in Russia has been at...
December 21, 2011
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The second partition
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IT is deeply unfortunate that the trials of alleged war criminals in Bangladesh, 30 years after the war...
December 14, 2011
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