The Ministry of External Affairs has sent Suresh Reddy, former ambassador to Iraq, to Baghdad to negotiate the safe release of the abducted Indian workers in Monsul. MEA and spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said that the Indian government is in touch with 46 nurses stranded in Tikrit as the government continues it’s struggle to bring back those stuck in violence torn Iraq. Meanwhile, according to reports in the media there are about 120 Indians that the mission is trying to evacuate from those parts of northern Iraq that have been overrun by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants.
In part-two of a two-part interview, Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director of Gateway House, interviews Professor M.D. Nalapat, Director of Geopolitics at Manipal University, about the rise of ISIS, their Wahabi influence and how India and the rest of the world will be affected with the advance of the ISIS militants.
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