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Saeed Naqvi
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The writer is a senior journalist and commentator based in New Delhi
    A girl holds a sign during a protest against US military involvement with Russia over Ukraine during a rally in Times Square, New York, on February 5, 2022. (AFP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Ukraine doesn’t expect invasion; but Biden, Boris...

    The image of the Western alliance in lockstep, ready to go for Mr Putin’s jugular, isn’t borne out by the facts on...

    7 Feb 2022 2:16 AM IST

    The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. (AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Moscow’s brief foray doused Kazakh turmoil, hasn’t...

    I run my eyes with wonder because the turbulence is totally incompatible with the image of serenity etched on my mind

    23 Jan 2022 1:37 AM IST

    Mikhail Gorbachev (Twitter)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Wasn’t world a better place in middle of the Cold War?

    My memory of the events three decades ago is of a personal nature as I was the only journalist who interviewed Mikhail...

    10 Jan 2022 1:39 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Dham, in Varanasi, Monday, Dec 13, 2021. (DC File Image)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Kashi Corridor: Would Ghalib, Ray & Bismillah recognise...

    All rivers have a lore for people settled on their banks and beyond, but the Ganga is different because it is special to...

    27 Dec 2021 3:35 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. (AFP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | After Putin trip, India closer to the poker table on...

    Militancy gestating next door, in Afghanistan, and in the notice of closest friend America places New Delhi in an...

    13 Dec 2021 3:58 AM IST

    Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visiting US President Ronald Reagan at the White House. (Twitter)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | When Indian diplomacy left both Moscow & US annoyed

    In Washington, the PM was persuaded that the decision to recognise the Polisario should be, well, delayed if not...

    29 Nov 2021 2:53 AM IST

    Terrorists cannot be trained with the fanciest weapons, pillowed with cash, drugged for violent killings and, after the assignment, expected to resume their lives as regular tax-paying citizens. Representational Image. (AFP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Terror in post-US Afghan: What is New Delhi's take?

    It was precisely to boost the FSA's war-making abilities that the CIA and the Pentagon created a budget that ran into...

    6 Nov 2021 1:09 AM IST

    Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | To be or not to be Congress president, that is the...

    Erasing public memory is a device in electoral politics which is given acceleration by television's magic

    22 Oct 2021 2:18 AM IST

    Taliban fighters gather along a street during a rally in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | US doesn't really want to know why it lost in Kabul

    The macabre headlines about US Marines urinating on a pile of dead Afghans made Page One in many newspapers

    9 Oct 2021 1:43 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden meets in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | PM to return from US with global power play compass

    The nuclear deal of 2015 conferred on Tehran the kind of legitimacy that was to have enabled it to balance power in the...

    25 Sept 2021 6:43 AM IST

    Far from being settled, Afghanistan is perilously poised. Yasif Nazari, 6, leans on a flag pole as he wears an Afghanistan military uniform as he listens to speakers at a rally to support the Afghan government Representational Image. (AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Clarity likely on Afghan situation after Sept. 16-17...

    False flag action by one agent provocateur will invite a hundred dark analyses

    9 Sept 2021 11:47 PM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Afghan in mess, but Biden’s end to US ‘forever...

    What happened in Afghanistan was a process set into motion as early as the 1970s, where imperial interests were directly...

    29 Aug 2021 6:58 AM IST

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