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...