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1 month ago | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
President Trump, who promised to end wars and never start one, has travelled 8,000 miles to bomb Yemen. If he continues, Yemen will be his Vietnam and Afghanistan. In many ways they are similar countries, populated by dogged fighters. Since the President and his team know not a jot about its history, sociology, topography, herewith, a brief note from my travels.
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2 months ago | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
It quite beats me that President Donald Trump is willing to go thousands of miles across the oceans to empty Gaza of Palestinians, and take it over to develop the seafront as a Riviera. “Beautiful, beautiful” he said, smacking his lips. He will be poaching in land promised by the Bible exclusively for Jews. Well, Miriam Adelson, Billionaire-owner of Las Vegas Sands, a Jewish philanthropist who donated $100 million to Trump’s campaign can be enlisted as a partner for the Riviera project.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
There is a growing school of thought that the West, led by the US, is fighting with its back to the wall in West Asia and Ukraine not to obtain victories in these theatres but to protect Western hegemony now in free fall. All eyes are on Trump, how will he cope with this predicament? By erecting safety nets to cushion this fall or by making fortress America great again, lapped by the two oceans. The latter course implies less interest in foreign expeditions. This would hit Israel where it hurts.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
“Assad has fled his country. His protector Russia was not interested in protecting him any longer.” This is President-elect Donald Trump’s observation on the events in Syria. How will these words echo with President Volodymyr Zelensky fighting with his back to the wall in Ukraine. If Russia can drop Assad, will Trump keep an albatross around his neck?
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
Celebrations in Israel at the elimination of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader who masterminded October 7, 2023, is an expression of relief by some Israelis. Does Sinwar’s death mean victory for Israel? The 100 or so Israeli hostages are still in Hamas hands. By non Israeli accounts, Hamas’s recruitment drive is in full swing for “the long war”. Does Israel have the stamina for that war?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
That Juan Guaido, 41, has in his CV described himself as the “ex President of Venezuela – 2019-2023” is not all fiction. Even when the world sleeps, the leader of the Free World is in relentless pursuit of replacing dictatorships with democracy worldwide. Replacing Nicolas Maduro in Caracas with Guaido was one such enterprise. “The Munro doctrine is alive and well” boomed Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
Bangladesh was created behind my back. Since I was a reporter with ‘The Statesman’, I was surprised that I was being kept away from the Bangladesh war where friend Raghu Rai was producing brilliant photographs, and Peter Hazelhurst of ‘The Times’, London, was well on his way to winning the Reporter of the year award in the United Kingdom. Why was I being held back?
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
The brutal realism of Tarantino’s Django Unchained may well cause the weak of stomach to throw up. A white plantation owner in America’s deep south, seated on a sofa in his living room, watches two burly slaves wrestle to the grim end or at least until one of them has gouged out the eyes of the other. Outside, a pack of hungry dogs, larger in size than wolves, are let loose on a slave who tries in vain to clamber onto a tree.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
t.ly | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
The brutal realism of Tarantino’s Django Unchained may well cause the weak of stomach to throw up. A white plantation owner in America’s deep south, seated on a sofa in his living room, watches two burly slaves wrestle to the grim end or at least until one of them has gouged out the eyes of the other. Outside, a pack of hungry dogs, larger in size than wolves, are let loose on a slave who tries in vain to clamber onto a tree.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
thecitizen.in | SAEED NAQVILoading.. |Saeed Naqvi
“‘Zamana kiski raoonat pe khaak daal gaya? Ye kaun bol raha tha khuda ke lehje mein?’ (On whose arrogance has time heaped a pile of dust? Who was it pretending to speak the language of Gods?)” I thought this definition of hubris by Iftekhar Arif had summed it all up, until I saw the Prime Minister, the great illusionist that he is, go through the swearing in ceremony as if nothing had happened. All the key Cabinet posts had been retained by colleagues of the pre election government.
