Essays & Policy Papers

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 | FB Blog | The decision of the Pakistan Cable Broadcasters Association to ban BBC World Service in Pakisan is unwise. The Cable Association and all their advisers ought to know that this is merely an emotional reactive decision and...
Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE Magazine | The past few weeks have not been kind to the politics of Imran Khan. After the high-water mark of APC in the second week of September, where all parties agreed – once again – to...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | So the argument goes that we can use 'the medium' to send the message across to the world that we are bold enough, strong enough and determined enough to hang a killer; that we have...
Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE | Though the honourable Supreme Court, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), NADRA and Attorney General of Pakistan are still battling at the tail end of a debate about the right of overseas Pakistanis to vote and the...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | The terrorists of the so called 'Islamic State' that struck in Brussels on 22nd March have created a crisis for almost everyone. Governments, institutions,  political parties and civil societies all will be transformed one...