Writings

Moeed Pirzada | 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 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011112story_2-11-2011_pg3_4 “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to...
Living like a king -- Sharif's litany of abuses News Intelligence Unit By Kamran Khan The News, 2000   KARACHI: While constantly pleading with expatriate Pakistanis to send their hard-earned dollars to their motherland, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif caused a dent of at...
Moeed Pirzada | I came to the DGMO Pakistan Military’s briefing on 29th Nov traumatized and almost convinced that NATO may have attacked the Pakistani posts in Mohmand Agency as part of some “operation punishment”. But while Gen. Ashfaq was being...
Moeed Pirzada | Storming Ptv; Barbarians at the Gates: Entering PTV was Wrong: But the situation we are dealing with is now full of all “wrongs”. Marching to the Prime Minister House is also wrong, sitting endlessly on Const. Ave...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Hi! thanks to all Hindu members of this Forum who have take time and effort to write detailed paras to let us understand how they see their faith and its evolution in modern times. I cannot...

Obama and the World

Moeed Pirzada | The News | US Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, sharing breakfast with the US soldiers in a canteen in Kabul, and patting affectionately on the shoulder of an African-American female soldier in uniform, was definitely a good PR stunt....
Moeed Pirzada | Modi Govt upset about growing Pak-Afghan thaw & improved relations between Islamabad and Kabul and its intelligence apparatus may plan something in the region to divert attention and to bring Islamabad under pressure internationally and to isolate it..??? This...
Moeed Pirzada | Yesterday Pakistan Foreign Office issued a detailed Press Release which I have posted on this Facebook Page. (and just posted on the other Profile Page a few minutes ago, so do read it carefully) There are many...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Storming Ptv; Barbarians at the Gates: Entering PTV was Wrong: But the situation we are dealing with is now full of all "wrongs". Marching to the Prime Minister House is also wrong, sitting endlessly on Const....
Moeed Pirzada | Panama Cat is out of the bag! PM Nawaz gave his ‘Commission of Enquiry’ that will or can investigate everyone ‘rich’ in Pakistan except himself. This is called a ‘potential sixer’. Will this be caught at the...
Moeed Pirzada was invited to speak on the nexus of Pakistani Media and politics at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Washington on 24th June, 2016. Roundtable was attended by members of academia and think tank community. Pirzada...
When in September of 2021 (16-17 Sept), Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan dashed to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to attend SCO’s 20th summit, there was another little-noticed activity going on beyond the glare of tv cameras. On Sept 14, Sixty-six Pakistani businessmen also...

What is Polarization?

Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | 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...
Moeed Pirzada | Read this news story “Details of the Close Combat at PNS Mehran” by “Mayed Ali” in today’s The News (25th May) and ask yourself question that what kind of commandos had trained these commandos? why similarly trained...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | Kaptaan Times Term “Civil Society” in Pakistan has become an interesting term, and as this article will explain increasingly confusing. Who are those commonly referred in Pakistan as Civil Society and liberals? What is their relation...