Articles & Blogs

Moeed Pirzada | Recently White House issued US President Barack Obama’s income and tax records. These were really interesting. American President in 2015 had a gross income of US $ 435,000/- out of which $395,000 was his  official salary as...
Moeed Pirzada | This relates to today’s program (Sat, 17th Dec) This program had a limited and defined focus on certain key aspects and questions related to the break-up of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh in Dec 1971. These...
In the morning of 27th April, Pakistani public was bombarded with the front page stories in leading English and Urdu papers of a media group closely aligned with the government, stories that claimed that International Consortium of Investigative Journalists...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | President Franklin D. Roosevelt had once said about Nicaraguan strongman, Anastosio Somoza, that: “he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch”. Since then American political jargon has become more black and white. These days...
Scotland Yard, the investigative arm of British Police has dropped all charges related to money laundering against MQM leader Altaf Hussain. Charges have also been dropped against his party comrades - Mohd Anwar and Sarfaraz Merchant. Details can be...

Re-interpreting The Message

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | On the second day of Eid Al Adha, in Pakistan, GEO TV marked its partial comeback on the country’s cables by showing Mustapha Akkad’s timeless masterpiece: The Message. With cables now reaching almost 10 million...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Congratulations! to all of you on this page; we have now become a community of more than 300,000 people, across Pakistan, India, UK, Europe, UAE and US and many other countries and amongst you there are...
The Sunday morning attack at the Indian military base at Uri, in Kashmir, 10 km inside the LOC, that has left 17 soldiers dead and many more injured has created new shock waves in an already tense regional atmosphere....
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | Many political changes, upheavals of one or the other kind, throughout the twentieth century have often been referred to as: “revolutions”. The term has been used loosely enough to refer to a pro-western change in Georgia,...
Moeed Pirzada | NewsLine | There is a strong feeling of déjà vu and an admittedly perverse sense of satisfaction in writing this. It’s been almost two years since Newsline first asked me to analyse the media circus, then surrounding the controversy...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | First we see the images of blood pools, scattered limbs and charred torsos on our TV screens, then we watch the histrionic cries of the survivors and then we hear that ludicrously reassuring news-item that the...
Moeed Pirzada | History’s first draft is always a journalistic account; I have given you an outline to understand what happened and why and will write more as I gather more insights. However lets see who steps in to buy BOL?...

Virtual Democracy Set

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, is now the President of Pakistan. We must congratulate him for it is time to admit that his intelligence, patience and political skills have yielded results. And there...

A Pakistani in Turkey

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Many years ago I fell in love with Bosphorus, its bridges, fishermen and Turkey. This affair still continues. But just like the evolution of all passions in our lives my reasons have changed. Eighteen years ago, I...
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...