August 8th, 2016012 Saeed Naqvi comments on controversial preacher Zakir Naik. He says Dr Naik's fortunes are linked with the result of US electionDr Zakir Naik, the Islamic evangelist with rock star ratings, could be only temporarily in trouble. Come November and he may be able to find apologists in the NDA government. What has November got to...
July 10th, 201609Saeed Naqvi comments on killings of religious leaders and bloggers besides the terror attacks in Bangladesh. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League is emotionally (and politically) more inclined towards India. Begum Zia correspondingly leans towards PakistanBefore we dwell on Bangladesh’s current travails, the good...
July 9th, 2016011 // // // //Saeed Naqvi writes on the individual hackings and terror attacks on Bangladesh...Before we dwell on Bangladesh’s current travails, the good news. It is the only double distilled entity to emerge from Partition. Armed with Bengali nationalism, it shuffled itself out of the Islamic identity the authors of...
July 1st, 2016019 // // // //Saeed Naqvi tries to make sense of the Istanbul attack and the whether it was a counter attack on the Fallujah operations.
Could the terrorist attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport killing 43 and injuring hundreds be a blowback from the Fallujah operations concluded three days ago? Does Fallujah, in the end,...
June 19th, 2016022Saeed Naqvi tracking the origin and the rise of ISIS
Every Joint Secretary’s room in the Ministry of External affairs had a neatly folded copy of the International Herald Tribune on the coffee table. This was the pattern in the 70s and 80s. In mid 90s, after economic liberalization and the birth of the global live media following...
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