Articles & Blogs

Dr Moeed Pirzada | Prominent Indian journalist, Praveen Swami, in his groundbreaking piece, “India’s Secret War” (Frontline, 16 February 2018) raises an interesting question: “Thirteen Indians are being held in Pakistan on espionage charges, and 30 Pakistanis are in Indian...
Indus Waters Treaty Will Be an “Act of War”: Sartaj Aziz September 19, 2016 marks the 56th anniversary of the signing of the Indus Basin treaty by India and Pakistan. The agreement signified the end of a long dispute between...
Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE | Though the honourable Supreme Court, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), NADRA and Attorney General of Pakistan are still battling at the tail end of a debate about the right of overseas Pakistanis to vote and the...
Moeed Pirzada | Dear All, Many of you will remember Imtiaz Khan who passionately contributed to the debates on this page. Heated arguments between him and Himanshu amused many and irritated others. I have learnt that he died on 30th...
A joint presser by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and DG ISPR Gen. Iftikhar Babar, in the second week of November 2020, provided details to media from a large dossier, “Indian Efforts to destabilize Pakistan”. This dossier since then has...
Moeed Pirzada | Why you must read Henry Kissinger’s “World Order”? – Unlike many books these days that read like a Master student’s exam passing thesis with the help of quotes stolen from internet, this book, World Order, is a...
Moeed Pirzada | Why must you read: Animal Farm by George Orwell? Let me tell you a short story or call it an example. I had posted a story on my Facebook page from Guardian, North Korea sentences US College Student...
Moeed Pirzada | Many of us remember the ‘All Parties Conference in London’ in the July of 2007. Then it was supposedly an alliance of the democratic parties against the dictatorship. Many of us believed it; though I am sure...
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 prisoner swap with Hezbollah. Remains of the two Israeli soldiers — Edud Goldwasser and Eldad...

A Blow to the US

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | BENAZIR Bhutto was a gifted progeny of a remarkable mind. Confronted by a three-decade long adversity and tragedy, she displayed an uncanny ability to redefine and remerge. There is no doubt that she stood head...

PM Nawaz speech at UNGA…!

Moeed Pirzada | PM Nawaz Speech at UNGA was not bad. If anything it was a good balanced speech. Off course it was not written by Nawaz; he would not even grasp some of the concepts or terms -or their...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | What can Pakistan & PM Nawaz do for Saudi Arabia? - While all eyes inside Pakistan were galvanized at the Senate Elections, PM Nawaz was being received personally by Saudi King Shah Salman bin Abdul Aziz...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Congratulations! to all of you on this page; we have now become a community of more than 300,000 people, across Pakistan, India, UK, Europe, UAE and US and many other countries and amongst you there are...
CDA Institute Security & Defence Blogger Adnan Qaiser, a political and defence analyst with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy, examines latest Kashmir uprising and its possible fallout. Horace said, “Brute force bereft of reason falls...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Hi! written word has one great advantage over the spoken word that you can always go back and check...read my last status update again, and don't make wrong judgements; I am not blaming Pakistan or India...I...