Writings

Moeed Pirzada | Daily times | Immanuel Kant in his 1795 essay, "Perpetual Peace" had argued that it is not the state of peace but the state of war that is the natural state among men living side by side and for...

Afghanistan Beyond 2014?

Moeed Pirzada|The Nation| Council on Foreign Relations is blue planet’s foremost think tank and “Foreign Affairs” is its prestigious and most sought after publication. If one searches the term “Afghanistan” on its website, several dozen pieces spring up in few...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | How PTI won its seats in KPK? – First Congratulations! to PTI and JI for winning all their seats in KPK, and Second lets see what happened. Ajmal Wazir Khan of PMLQ had told in our...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | Politics often consists of paradoxes and Pakistani attitude towards general elections offers an interesting and perhaps painful example. Pakistani people, rival political parties, institutions and media share an enthusiasm that elections will throw up solutions to...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Yesterday Pakistan Foreign Office issued a detailed Press Release which I have posted on this Face Book Page. (and just posted on the other Profile Page few minutes ago, so do read it carefully) There are...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | PM Nawaz Meeting with President Obama - I just read Munir Akram's piece, "Washington Challenge" and I genuinely felt sympathy for PM Nawaz Sharif. He is up against a huge challenge and needs our support. As per...
Policy Paper - WTO: The Challenge Ahead by Dr Moeed Pirzada IPRI ::Islamabad Policy Research Institute This paper intends to examine the achievements, failures and future challenges faced by World Trade Organisation (WTO). It discusses the circumstances that gave birth to the...
Moeed Pirzada | I came to the DGMO Pakistan Military’s briefing on 29th Nov traumatized and almost convinced that NATO may have attacked the Pakistani posts in Mohmand Agency as part of some “operation punishment”. But while Gen. Ashfaq was being...
Former Leader of Pakistan May Face Corruption Trial By TIM WEINER and STEVE LeVINE Published: October 21, 1999 From New York Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 20— The military said today that Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister the army overthrew last week, is being...

A New US Vision?

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | The US Congressional bill designed to implement the '9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007' contains the seeds of new thinking on Pakistan. As widely known, this voluminous piece of legislation makes the continuation of assistance...
Policy Paper - Kashmir: Indian Strategic Initiative Since 9/11 and Imperative By Dr. Moeed Pirzada IPRI :: Islamabad Policy Research Institute The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York laid the foundation for emerging new world order, to which both...
Moeed Pirzada | Financial Times (FT, 18 July) coined the term, “Dirtiest Elections” to describe Pakistan’s July polls that brought Imran Khan’s PTI to power in center, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. The party also emerged as the largest political force...
Panama Cat is out of the bag! PM Nawaz gave his 'Commission of Enquiry' that will or can investigate everyone 'rich' in Pakistan except himself. This is called a 'potential sixer'. Will this be caught at the boundary or...
Moeed Pirzada | For the past six weeks, PPP leaders have been playing the ‘Punjabi gallery’ and playing well with rhetoric, acrobatics of emotion and feigned anger to present themselves as an ‘opposition’ to the reign of Nawaz Sharif. Moment...
Moeed Pirzada | Off Floods, Lion & the Monkey:- Once upon a time a Lion was going on vacations; Monkeys demanded that since they have never been the King of the Jungle this time around their Chief Monkey should be...