The Writings of M D Nalapat

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Nepal would never have come to be led by Maoists were it not for the help that the rebels got from Ind...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Wahabbism, the radical Islam currently advancing around the globe, originated in the 18th century as a...

M D Nalapat At the risk of some repetition, it is worth mentioning two facts that seem unknown to policymakers such as U.S. envoy to ...

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,...