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IT appears unlikely that the political disarray into which Australia has stumbled in the wake of last Saturday’s election can satisfactorily be…
Mahir Ali
Born and schooled in Lahore, Pakistan. Attended university in Moscow and Oxford. Have worked as a journalist in Pakistan, Dubai and Australia.
IS there any government anywhere in the world that would not have been found wanting in the face of such a profound…
IT’S somewhat odd that whereas there were any number of voices calling for President Asif Zardari to cancel his state visit to…
IT could easily be argued that the fog of war has, if anything, become more dense with this week’s WikiLeaks revelations about…
OVER the past week or so, the government in Tehran has been trying to milk the mysterious saga of Shahram Amiri for…
ONE could be forgiven for interpreting the US-Russian spy saga that apparently culminated last weekend on an airfield in Vienna as a…
“IF Americans … started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular,” Michael Hastings quotes a senior adviser to…
AT about 7pm last Wednesday, Australia’s national broadcaster, the ABC, broke the news that moves were afoot in the ruling Labor Party…
APPARENTLY it was a phone call from the esteemed director Mahesh Bhatt’s German mother-in-law that clinched the issue for Indian actor Anupam…
THE vehement denials that have lately been pouring out of Islamabad with reference to Matt Waldman’s controversial discussion paper on the Inter-Services…