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US Double Standards

Moeed Pirzada | The News | The turn of events since the bombings of the Indian embassy in Kabul should be of interest to anyone interested in...

Obama: Trapped in Afghanistan?

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | BARACK Obama’s whirlwind trip to Afghanistan, Iraq and the world was to burnish his credentials as the ‘would be’ Commander in...

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...

Will the US Finally Attack Pakistan?

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Great powers tend to commit great blunders. But will the US be stupid enough to destabilize Pakistan, one of the most...

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...

Nuclear Divide of Politics

Moeed Pirzada | The News | Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s statements are being treated as an individual act of desperation. Far from that the ease of restrictions...

Why the Israelis are Afraid of a Peaceful Iran

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Israeli cabinet has done a very interesting thing. Almost two years after the Second Lebanon war of 2006 it has approved...

A Forgotten President and Shape of Things to Come

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Gen. Musharraf, once the darling of the mini-screen, has gradually disappeared from the Pakistani television. Some days ago even the most...

Dinner with the President?

Moeed Pirzada | The News | This week, hundreds of thousands of people across Pakistan ended up watching the documentary “Dinner with the President” co-produced by acclaimed...

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...

Making Sense of the Long March of Lawyers

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Words are not just words. They are powerful symbols and often pregnant with historical images. And the genie of those images...

Change and Challenge in Washington

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | This is both a moment for inspiration and challenge for Pakistan. But whereas the inspiration is theoretical, the challenge is far...

The Jury is Out On The First 100 Days of This Government

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | On 28th May, many in Pakistan celebrated or condemned the first ten years of Pakistan becoming an overt nuclear power. But...

Comment: Religion and post-modernism – Dr Moeed Pirzada

Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times | TED founders describe themselves as a community of knowledge seekers. Each year they select three gifted individuals for the TED Prize...