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Moeed Pirzada | What have we learnt from Fall of Dacca in our Politics? TV Recording in Lahore, Univ of Central Punjab, 3pm, on Tue 16th Dec, open to all students & professionals in Lahore. Students & professional, both...

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Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | IN 1986, Mikhael Gorbachev declared Afghanistan a “bleeding wound”. More than two decades later it is still festering. Among those who suffer is United States. But let there be no doubt that there are only...
Alan Campbell Johnson, in his famous book, “Mission with Mountbatten” writes – while trying to explain why Kashmir, amongst the princely states, represented a special problem that “there was a Hindu ruler with a state geographically contiguous to both...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | BARACK Obama’s whirlwind trip to Afghanistan, Iraq and the world was to burnish his credentials as the ‘would be’ Commander in Chief of the world’s sole superpower. But it ended up raising interesting questions; questions which...
Moeed Pirzada | Shariq Kamal Siddique, District Police Officer (DPO), Bahawalnagar, has been summarrily removed from his position, and surrendered to Centre after he refused apologizing to the local MNA for arresting his aide who had thrashed policemen at a...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada lectured at the Eighth National Media Workshop at National Defense University Islamabad, on 12th April. Topic of his lecture and subsequent discussion was: "Propaganda Wars: How Anti-State Elements use Media". Dr Pirzada explained the history and...
Moeed Pirzada | The News | This week, hundreds of thousands of people across Pakistan ended up watching the documentary “Dinner with the President” co-produced by acclaimed filmmakers Sabiha Soomar and Dr Sathanathan. Sabiha is Pakistani but her co-producer, Dr Sathanathan, is Sri...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | To most Americans and to many of us it was received wisdom that a democrat will win the US Elections in 2008. not anymore. Many analysts fear this may not happen. They point out while Clinton...
Moeed Pirzada | PTI Seminar on Health Policy VisionTI Seminar on Health Policy Vision: I did attend the Seminar at Marriott, Islamabad. It is certainly a historic moment in Pakistan’s political history when a major political party, or any party...
As I write these lines, in the early hours of 3rd October 2016, initial reports are pouring in of 'yet another fidayeen attack against a garrison' this time in Baramula, not far from Srinagar. Though its only logical to...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Ken Livingstone’s defeat at the hands of Boris Johnson in the elections for the Mayor of Greater London, last week, was the end of an era. It was a development bigger than the city of...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | While many of our friends are up in arms on Maulana Abdul Aziz's disgusting comments for which he must show regret and profusely apologize few have read the piece written in New York Times by Dr....
Russian President, Putin, and Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan surprised the world when they spoke with one voice on Afghanistan during the just concluded 20th summit of SCO. Dr. Moeed Pirzada, Editor Global Village Space analyses from Dushanbe, Tajikistan.  Russia and Pakistan join forces...
Moeed Pirzada | Why must you read: Animal Farm by George Orwell? Let me tell you a short story or call it an example. I had posted a story on my Facebook page from Guardian, North Korea sentences US College Student...
Moeed Pirzada | Why you must read Henry Kissinger’s “World Order”? – Unlike many books these days that read like a Master student’s exam passing thesis with the help of quotes stolen from internet, this book, World Order, is a...