Mahir Ali
HE reached the mountain top and, presumably, saw the other side. Edmund Hillary, who died last week, was an intrepid...
Published 16 Jan, 2008 12:00am
ON the very day that another blood-soaked chapter was being added to Pakistan’s history, a political transformation...
Published 09 Jan, 2008 12:00am
Tujh ko kitnon ka lahoo chahiye ae arz-i-watan/Jo tiray arz-i-berang ko gulnaar karein/Kitni aahon se kaleja tira...
Published 02 Jan, 2008 12:00am
JACOB Zuma’s remarkable ascendancy may well turn out to be a temporary phenomenon, given that he faces corruption...
Published 26 Dec, 2007 12:00am
THE withdrawal, by popular international demand, of the emergency at the weekend does not, in two significant ...
Published 19 Dec, 2007 12:00am
IN Pakistan, the results of referendums called by dictators are well known in advance. In 1984 and again in 2002,...
Published 12 Dec, 2007 12:00am
WHEN she arrived in Khartoum four months ago, Gillian Gibbons couldn’t possibly have had any inkling that she’d be...
Published 05 Dec, 2007 12:00am
NO one should be under any illusion about the implications of Australia’s change of government: sharp deviations ...
Published 28 Nov, 2007 12:00am
IT might have been possible, in different circumstances, to feel sorry for John Negroponte. The US deputy secretary...
Published 21 Nov, 2007 12:00am
TWO days after General Pervez Musharraf promulgated the emergency, rumours of a coup were rife across Pakistan. At...
Published 14 Nov, 2007 12:00am
THE winter of our discontent sprouted legs last Saturday. It may have a long way to run. Sooner or later, though, it...
Published 07 Nov, 2007 12:00am
LATE at night on Sept 6, eight of the latest Israeli fighter aircraft — obtained, needless to say, from the United...
Published 31 Oct, 2007 12:00am
ONE can hardly disagree with Benazir Bhutto when she argues that militant Islamists must not be allowed to determine...
Published 26 Oct, 2007 12:00am
