Mahir Ali

Welcome to hell

Welcome to hell

Cruelty is hardly an acceptable response to the refugee crisis.

“ABANDON all hope, ye who enter here.” That is the clincher, so to speak, in the inscription on the gates to hell, according to Dante’s Divine Comedy. It’s a message that could be transported across the centuries and prominently be displayed along the US border with Mexico, in place of the wall Donald Trump has […]

 Mahir Ali

Martin Luther King’s legacy goes beyond his civil rights activism.

Martin Luther King’s legacy goes beyond his civil rights activism.

The rebel King

  IN Pakistan, April 4 is associated with the judicial murder of its first elected prime minister. In the United States, the date marks the assassination of its most prominent 20th-century moral exemplar. Fifty years ago today, just after 6pm local time in Memphis, Tennessee, a hunting rifle barked and the bullet found its mark, […]