Zaab Sethna

In November 2005 I went to see Ahmad Chalabi, then Iraq's deputy prime minister, on the top floor of a large Tehran hotel. It was difficult to have him focus on my questions, as both he and Zaab Sethna, his Zoroastrian Pakistani advisor, were as excited as children in poring over a huge pile of art books.

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“Iraq imports refined flour from Saudi Arabia,” said Zaab Sethna. “When you think of the historic context, it seems crazy that the Land of the Two Rivers is importing bread from the Empty Quarter.” But with costs continuing to climb, more and more Iraqi farmers appear to be abandoning agriculture for other ...

A press trip arranged to boost the Qatari government's public relations ahead of World Cup has turned to disaster, after a BBC news crew invited on the tour were arrested for doing actual reporting. The trip for journalists was meant to challenge claims that migrant workers are being abused and mistreated ...

And we are very disappointed.” One Western NGO worker, who asked to remain nameless, says the future of Iraq is predictably bleak. “The one sure thing here,” he says, “is that everyone ends up in the mortuary.” Zaab Sethna, a political consultant, offered a more concrete suggestion about the way ahead.

“Iraq is one of the last centrally planned economies on earth and this must change if they are to have any hope of creating the jobs they need,” says Zaab Sethna of Northern Gulf Partners, which specializes in Iraqi investment. As for security and the violence that continues to tear Iraq apart, Maliki, despite monopolizing the ...

In January, Iraq found itself once more beset by a wave of insurgency, as Sunni extremists took hold of large areas of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, the two main cities in Anbar province. Given its strategic importance to global oil supply, our Design and Production team have put together this map detailing the ...

Her marriage to Zaab Sethna is part of that. The birth of their daughter Romi four years ago is an even bigger part. But Bellman has in the past admitted to feeling like a fraud as an actor — a “pretty girl who was hired for her looks, not her talent”, she said in one interview. “Every person has parallel tracks,” ...

This came on the heels of a recent meeting in Baghdad of the energy ministers of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria to discuss energy and security, which led to talk of a regional compact — a “new Baghdad Pact, without the U.S.,” as Zaab Sethna calls it. Sethna, co-founder of Northern Gulf Partners, working to ...

Zaab Sethna, a Chalabi aide still with the INC, defends the Ghurairy story: “Those people who accuse us have got a grudge. It's just lying,” he said, adding that the INC presented defectors to U.S. intelligence agencies only if their accounts sounded “interesting and plausible.” IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR, ...

Helping al-Haideri was Zaab Sethna, media spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and a long-time colleague of Moran's. Not surprisingly, the INC (best known for its founder, Ahmed Chalabi, a now disgraced member of the Iraqi Governing Council) was created by the Rendon Group, according ...