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US State Department's Question & Answer Session with Media, on 24th May 2016 Discussion is about the Killing of Mullah Mansoor Akhtar; killed in a US Drone Strike, by the orders of the US President. What is surprising is that...
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....
Trump's first day at the Oval Office. First briefing by the CIA, Pentagon & FBI: Trump: We must destroy ISIS immediately. CIA: We cannot do that, sir. We created them along with Turkey, Saudi, Qatar and others. Trump: The Democrats created them. CIA:...
MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH GUL Exactly 15 years after the traumatic events of 9/11 General (R) Pervez Musharraf in his Dunya News Interview with Dr. Moeed Pirzada on 11th September 2016, Exclusive Interview with Gen. Musharraf, Dunya News on the 15th anniversary of...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Post | From “The Taliban Shuffle”by Kim Barker (published by Doubleday): “With Bhutto gone,I needed to meet the lion of Punjab,or maybe the tiger. No one seemed to know which feline Nawaz Sharif was nicknamed after. Some fans...
How could two be related? Blasphemy Laws and Woman Protection Act? These two pieces of legislation look so different. How on earth some one in right mind can find a relation between these two. And yet this is where...
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...
Moeed Pirzada |Pakistan Today| Whereas the Model Town tragedy of June 17 – where Punjab police ended up killing at least 14 innocent men and women – has filled the media space with the news of an uninspiring judicial commission...
“They were five men, they dragged me out of the house, they kicked me like a football, and then they poured gasoline on me and set me on fire; I recognized ‘Master Shaukat’ and yes, Arshad….” These were more...

Is Ch. Nisar being sacked?

Rumor mills from Lahore to Islamabad are alive with the buzz that PM Nawaz Sharif has finally decided to sack his Interior Minster, Ch.Nisar Ali Khan. With his audacious uncompromising stand on issues of national security, Indian intervention in...
Pakistan's religious parties have made an interesting political move. While in public and media consciousness they are identified as 'spoilers' who resist attempts towards modernity and reform through street agitations and hoarse cries of 'Islam under threat' but on...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | A Conversation with Dr. Tahir ul Qadri on why he called off his Dharna and If he is going to Canada? - Friends started texting me today that Dr. Qadri has again decided to leave for...
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....
When I'm happy, I eat. When I'm sad, I eat more. Yes! I'm a Pakistani. Welcome to Pakistan - the land of . We are usually known for our cultural heritage, values, unbeatable energy, bravery, warmth, quick wit, energetic...
Last summer, in a small gathering, a senior civil servant was complaining of massive traffic congestion on access roads to Murree and Swat. And then he paused, reflected and amused with himself said: "but it also shows veil of...