Tag: President Musharraf
Virtual Democracy Set
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, is now the President of Pakistan. We must congratulate him for it is...
Whose Terrorists are They Anyway?
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had once said about Nicaraguan strongman, Anastosio Somoza, that: “he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is...
Making Sense of Nuclear Divide in Musharraf Country
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr AQ Khan’s recent pronouncements implicating President Musharraf and the army in clandestine nuclear proliferation, and the storm...
Fighting the Wrong War
Moeed Pirzada | The News |
With the confirmation of Sen Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for the US presidential election and with President Bush’s last...
US Diplomacy of Desperation?
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, Ms. Anne Patterson, was distributing awards in a ceremony organised by Roots College International in Islamabad when...
Pakistani Politics: Where Exactly Lie the Next Fault Lines?
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
How PPP and PML(N) — despite the Murree Accord — will ultimately resolve their different approaches towards the restoration of...
Suicide Bombers and US
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Mr Zardari, Ms Bhutto’s widower, were able to reconcile their differences for a historic...
Mother of All Elections?
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
People forget about creators while their creations live on and multiply. In the six years since then the expression has...
Seeing Pakistan Through the Eyes of Pakistanis
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
You know I am saddened by this increasing lack of poise and confidence in my Pakistani students,” my friend Bob...
Long Live Musharraf
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
RECENTLY, in Karachi, a poor man living on the coast, went fishing and caught a big fish. Happy with his...