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Mahir Ali

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Enabling genocide

Verbal objections mean next to nothing.

30.07.2025 70

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MAGA meltdown

Trump can’t help complicating his travails.

23.07.2025 60

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Shut up & bear it

Few Israelis seem to be bothered about the daily toll in Gaza.

16.07.2025 60

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The past is prelude

Indira’s Emergency was a warning for India.

09.07.2025 90

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Strangling hope

From UK to US, that might not work.

02.07.2025 100

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A fraught peace

The US is accustomed to open-ended wars.

25.06.2025 70

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Tehran under fire

Nothing positive can emerge from Israeli belligerence.

18.06.2025 100

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Marching orders

Disaster stretches from Gaza to LA.

11.06.2025 50

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Junker mentality

Europe’s war plans portend a disaster.

04.06.2025 90

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Deadly distractions

The US almost certainly could halt Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign at a stroke.

28.05.2025 50

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One of a kind

There are lessons to be learned from a Uruguayan guerrilla.

21.05.2025 100

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War? No way!

Trump’s offer to mediate is charming but unlikely to yield dividends.

14.05.2025 100

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Put peace first

There is no such thing as a great war.

07.05.2025 80

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Ghosts of Vietnam

And let’s not forget Bandung 1955.

30.04.2025 80

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A progressive pope?

Francis leaves behind a complicated legacy.

23.04.2025 100

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Chinese burn

Is the US still a paper tiger to Beijing?

16.04.2025 80

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Trumpian delusion

There’s worse to come, with little resistance.

09.04.2025 100

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Baloch imbroglio

The state’s follies match those of its adversaries.

26.03.2025 100

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Duterte in the dock

It’s a rare win for the ICC in unusual circumstances.

19.03.2025 40

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Palestine’s erasure

When will the Zionists face a Nuremberg?

12.03.2025 100

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What next?

Western illiberalism trumps liberalism.

05.03.2025 90

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Achtung baby

Germany once more boosts the European far right.

26.02.2025 40

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Martyr’s memorial

Malcolm X was outlived by his monumental legacy.

19.02.2025 50

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Media misfires

Trump’s crimes so far don’t stretch to Afghanistan.

12.02.2025 70

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Flood alert

Trump’s tariffs on hold as tantrums carry on.

05.02.2025 100

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Genocidal intent

‘Never again’ remains an aspiration 80 years after Auschwitz.

29.01.2025 70

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Donald 2.0

This character is now chief executive of the most powerful nation, accompanied by equally immoral underlings.

22.01.2025 90

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LA goes to blazes

There could be worse to come under Trump.

15.01.2025 90

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Zones of interest

ONE of the more thought-provoking movies to emerge in the past couple of years, from a western film industry that thrives on pointless fantasies,...

08.01.2025 100

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Carter’s centuries

JIMMY Carter’s extraordinary longevity partly accounts for his exceptional status among the US presidential pantheon. He was born when Calvin...

01.01.2025 6

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Pacem in terris?

JUST before sitting down yesterday to write this column, I was listening to a History Extra podcast about the ‘history behind the headlines’ of...

25.12.2024 10

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Seoul suspense

BACK in the early 1980s, when Akbar S. Ahmed was contemplating whether Pakistan could be Japan, he might have missed an opportunity to focus on a...

18.12.2024 10

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Whither Syria?

IT turned out that there were no speed bumps in the fast lane on the road to Damascus. The incredibly swift demise of the Assad regime appears to...

11.12.2024 5

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Irrepressible poet

THE story goes that Chiragh Deen, a tailor based in Baghbanpura on the outskirts of Lahore, often entertained clients with his verses — many of...

04.12.2024 10

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Annual COP-out

EVEN the low expectations that preceded the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29), which concluded in the early hours of Sunday, turned out to have...

27.11.2024 10

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Past and future

THIS week’s column was intended to be a diatribe against the circumstances that are choking the denizens of Delhi and Lahore, and a reflection on...

20.11.2024 9

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Trumped again

DONKEYS are reputed to be stubborn beasts. That possible misinterpretation of their instinct for self-preservation characterises a party that has...

13.11.2024 4

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True Brits

THERE are ways in which Kemi Badenoch’s advent as Britain’s opposition leader, at the helm of the Conservative Party, can be seen as a remarkable...

06.11.2024 4

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Trump or Harris?

A WEEK from today, nervous tension will be spiking within and beyond the US as the results roll in from what has been hyped up as the most...

30.10.2024 4

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Aspiring dreamers

AMONG the various things that lately have not gone Imran Khan’s way was his predictable elimination from the list of candidates for the post of...

23.10.2024 30

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Disunited nations

THE inability of the UN to facilitate the primary goal set out in its hopeful charter nearly eight decades ago, “to save succeeding generations...

16.10.2024 6

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Beyond Oct 7

IF it is considered impolitic to denounce Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza over the past year without condemning the inhumane crimes committed by...

09.10.2024 5

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Unseen horrors

WHEN yet another Sudanese civil war erupted in April 2023, the then year-old Russian invasion of Ukraine continued to hog the attention of the so-...

02.10.2024 6

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Agents of terror

OVER the past week, the Netanyahu regime may have succeeded in its endeavours to provoke a wider war. It isn’t difficult to imagine what the...

25.09.2024 20

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Electoral meddling

“THE American people,” the US attorney general Merrick Garland declared recently, “are entitled to know when a foreign power engages in political...

11.09.2024 4

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Right, wrong & left

LAST Sunday, the state election in Thuringia for the first time propelled an extreme right-wing party to pole position anywhere in Germany since...

04.09.2024 4

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Taliban on steroids

THE inspired but abortive effort a century ago by a king and his feminist queen to thrust Afghanistan into their vision of modernity offers a stark...

28.08.2024 10

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Poking the bear

TWENTY-FOUR years ago, just months into his first term as Russia’s second post-Soviet president, Vladimir Putin was pictured partying at a dacha in...

21.08.2024 3

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Beyond the javelin

A SINGULAR athletic triumph in Paris triggered spontaneous jubilation in the run-up to Independence Day in a nation that might otherwise have...

14.08.2024 10

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Diplomacy deficit

PAEANS to Joe Biden’s diplomatic skills have been flowing since the fruition of a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. The deal...

07.08.2024 3

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