Writings

What is polarization?

Moeed Pirzada | What is Polarization? I suspect most of you or perhaps most in Pakistan don’t fully understand what it means. Polarization is when a society or polity splits in extreme ends, without a connecting middle ground. Pakistan today...
PM Imran Khan's visit to China on invitation by the Chinese leadership to visit Beijing from February 3 to Feb 6, 2022, to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games 2022 has been described as a huge...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Egyptian Crisis is increasing! though by now there is little doubt that the US was behind creating this "military coup" (while US and EU are still trying to reinvent English language and dictionary by not admitting...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive” was how the young Wordsworth had eulogised the energy and feverishness of the French Revolution. Two hundred and nineteen years later another Bastille has fallen: America has elected its first black...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | How many people have been arrested in Pakistan to curb this political movement? - Govt's strategy is to keep a tight lid so that no reliable figures are available. However in the last 3-4 days all...

Will Ptv English survive?

Moeed Pirzada | Regarding the Ptv English: On the Express Tribune’s post, “Will Ptv English Survive?” I read all of your comments with interest. And I may add something to that debate. When I decided to leave Ptv in end...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | I arrived at the director-general military operation’s briefing on November 29 traumatised and almost convinced that NATO may haveattacked the Pakistani posts in Mohmand Agency as part of “Operation Punishment”. But while Major-General Ishfaq Nadeem was...
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  | Daily Times | Did General Pasha and his colleagues ever realise that their mid-20th century organisation, built on 'paradigms of control and fear' and buttressed through old fashioned notions of 'national security' and 'patriotism' needs a strategic rethink to...
What is happening in Pakistan? Why its happening the way it is happening and how can Pakistan change and become a genuinely democratic polity? Why politicians, educated middle classes and even intellectuals look towards the army to bring a...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | Dr. Farooq Sattar, MQM Pakistan's embattled leader while delivering a passioned speech against his detractors, on Sunday, thundered that, "I can not become Mamnoon Hussain". Speech was televised, rather chunks of the speech containing that part,...
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...

Post Election Fault Lines

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | These overtures were a must to ensure the continuity of US strategic interests in a period of transition. However, it ended up creating the impression as if the fault lines between Pakistan’s new political dispensation...
Moeed Pirzada | I have deleted the earlier comment on Christian-Muslim Marriage, because on the face of it most of you are convinced that whereas Muslim men marry Women of the book (Christian & Jewish), Muslim women don’t have this...
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...