The Writings of M D Nalapat

BY M.D. Nalapat Amidst the rejoicing over NATO’s fight for the ‘liberation’ of Libya from Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade-long rule...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Those familiar with the situation on the ground in Afghanistan are aware that only around 17 percent of th...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — This columnist was among the first outside the United States to cheer on, in February 2008, the ascent...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — If the Taliban are gaining ground in Afghanistan, the reason lies less in their prowess than the daily...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — During the 1960s, the United States had a president who did more for the underclass than most of his p...

M.D. Nalapat When floods hit the largely Buddhist enclave of Leh in Kashmir recently, the chief minister Omar Abdullah, representatives o...

M.D. Nalapat  Manipal, India — The Pakistan army, through its spokesperson Athar Abbas, has publicly confirmed that it is in touch w...

M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, March 18 (UPI) -- Regular readers of this column will not have been surprised at recent developments in Pakis...

M.D. Nalapat  Manipal, India — Pakistan's chief of army staff, General Parvez Ashfaq Kayani, is a master at the strategy of star...

M.D. Nalapat  MANIPAL, India, March 10 (UPI) -- Say this for Pakistan's army -- its aftershave works. It seems to reduce to blobs of...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Say this for Pakistan’s army, their after-shave works reducing the critical faculties of U.S. "ex...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Attendees at the numerous parties held in Lahore, Islamabad or Karachi would find it difficult to acce...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Someone forgot to tell Britain's foreign secretary and would-be prime minister, David Miliband, th...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India -  Pakistan's U.S.-approved chief of army staff, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, wanted a less unpredictable p...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — In 2004, this columnist annoyed some of his U.S. friends by rooting for George W. Bush for the U.S. pr...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — There are indeed parallels between the insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban. Both have brown complexions a...

 M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — It is small wonder that Pakistan's army chief, Parvez Ashfaq Kiyani, prefers to dial the number of th...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Founded as it was by a bacon-friendly, whiskey-drinking Muhammad Ali Jinnah, by the end of the 1950s –...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — After Pervez Musharraf himself, the individual who will be most nervous at the resignation of Pakistan...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — In 1971, following the Indian army's defeat of Pakistan in Bangladesh and the capture of 93,000 prison...