Writings

Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Tale of two Cases; Axact & Ayyan Ali - Nothing offers a bigger contrast to understand the priorities of Pakistani political and media elite and of the whole governing system. In case of Axact, Minister of Interior...
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times | Imran Khan did not have the charisma of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto or the oratorical skills of Benazir, but what he had, in his simple straightforward words, was something different "Bliss was it in that dawn...
Moeed Pirzada | Dawn | The controversy surrounding an interview of real-estate tycoon Malik Riaz on Dunya News has brought Pakistan’s electronic media under unprecedented pressure. Criticism has flowed fast and furious as an enraged public vents its anger against the industry and...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Why Karachi Jalsa is a Game Changer? - Many things can be said about this large assembly of men and women that is described around quarter a million. (250,000 very conservative estimate). This collection of mankind...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Hi! as you all know Senator John Kerry is in Pakisan. He is a great visionary, a man of advanced consciousness, an able statesman, and a leader who thinks in terms of positive solutions for the...
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...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Responding to Ayesha Hasan:- I never said that demanding PM Nawaz's resignation is "unconstitutional" - I have repeatedly said it was a "maximalist" demand which in politics means that you will ultimately settle for lesser but...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Off Floods, Lion & the Monkey:- Once upon a time a Lion was going on vacations; Monkeys demanded that since they have never been the King of the Jungle this time around their Chief Monkey should...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Changing Nature of Conspiracy Theories by Nawaz Govt: This is now getting hilarious! First it was the Army planning to capture key installations and bring "Arab Revolution or Rose Revolution" through Imran and Qadri so Army...
Moeed Pirzada |Pakistan Today| I thought I was unable to explain Farzana’s tragedy the way I wanted to do in my TV program,Siyasat Aur Qanoon; idiot box as repeatedly pointed out by many veterans of print journalism has its limitations as...
Moeed Pirzada | Tribune | Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appears to be caught in a political nutcracker, mostly of his own making. On May 11, it was Imran Khan who stood, amidst thunderous applause, at Islamabad’s D-chowk demanding: electoral reforms, thumbprint verifications in...
Moeed Pirzada |  FB Blog | Why we should say "No" to Executive Magistracy? - DMG group has been building a case for the restoration of Exec-Magistracy; their argument has been that under the combined powers of District Administration and Judicial function...
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...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Why Auntie BBC should not run its London Agenda here? - Now since I have provided you the details of why BBC was considered an overbearing Auntie with her strict values and indoctrination in the UK...
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...