The Writings of M D Nalapat

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, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The Shiite branch of Islam is regarded as heresy by followers of Wahhabism, an Islamic sch...

M.D. Nalapat  Manipal, India — The Shiite branch of Islam is regarded as heresy by followers of the founder of Wahabbism, Abdel Wahab (1...

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, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Although both are democracies, Israel and India are polar opposites in their response to ...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — The 1989 defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan was a tactical victory, but a strategic defeat for ...

By M D Nalapat Kayani wanted an Indian mobilisation. He should not get it. War is not the option, at least for the present. And it is sur...

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 — Since the terror attacks on Mumbai five days ago, key Western intelligence agencies have been shown do...

M.D. Nalapat  MANIPAL, India, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Since the terror attacks on Mumbai five days ago, Indian security sources have promoted ev...

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 — It must be wonderful to believe that the rest of the world shares one's own self-perceptions of omni...

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 — Contrary to the expectations of Congress Party boss Sonia Gandhi and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sin...

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 — The Soviet Union became a superpower during the rule of Josef Stalin, who terrorized those territories...

M.D. Nalapat  Manipal, India — On July 22, should India's ruling alliance win its trust vote in Parliament, Prime Minister Manmo...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe represents the other side of apartheid – the forced segregation...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Although the prime minister of Iraq Nuri al-Maliki has survived physically and politically in his job,...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Should another hurricane like Katrina hit the United States, perhaps in Florida, and Cuban leader Raul...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Despite substantial effort by the administration of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to ensure a m...