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Indian TV giant, NDTV’s website reports that Indian NSA, Ajit Doval, has briefed Indian PM Narendra Modi that 100 Pakistani trained terrorists are ready at launch sites close to LOC, in Pakistani Kashmir. NDTV cites ‘sources’ for...
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 resilient states British Empire left behind? If I have to bet whatever dollars I am...
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I think that ‘Baqir Sajid’s’ balanced and well-argued position, which he has explained again, has not been understood by most on this forum. This is not a debate about the good & bad of gay and lesbians...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
Regarding the Ptv English: On the Express Tribune's post, "Will Ptv English Survive?" I read all of your comments with interest. And I may add something to that debate. When I decided to leave Ptv in...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
Title: EXCLUSIVE: Jeb Bush resigns all board memberships with eye on 2016
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, moving closer to a possible presidential run, has stepped down as a paid adviser to a for-profit education company that...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blogs |
We need to critically evaluate the claims being released by unnamed Afghan and Western officials in Wall Street Journal and Guardian. We cannot blame these papers because they are being told by 'unnamed officials' however Pakistani...
Pakistan's religious parties have made an interesting political move. While in public and media consciousness they are identified as 'spoilers' who resist attempts towards modernity and reform through street agitations and hoarse cries of 'Islam under threat' but on...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
Apologies & Regrets Easy but Accepting Mistake Difficult: This afternoon I was hit by a motorist. She was waiting at a cross-section to a major road, and I, a pedestrian, was about to cross a small,...
Moeed Pirzada | Express Tribune |
ISLAMABAD: Former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, as per his lawyers, will not appear in court today (Monday). Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement on Saturday – the first of its kind regarding the ongoing Musharraf trial –...
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Shariq Kamal Siddique, District Police Officer (DPO), Bahawalnagar, has been summarrily removed from his position, and surrendered to Centre after he refused apologizing to the local MNA for arresting his aide who had thrashed policemen at a...
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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 today...
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 that erupted once again demonstrated the country’s deeply polarised politics.
Western writers and columnists had often...
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Pakistanis, Indians and the world at large may disagree on many many things; its almost impossible to count how many, but on one thing, they will all agree: putting Dawn’s prominent journalist, Cyril Almedia’s name on Exit Control List...
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Responding to Ayesha Hasan:- I never said that demanding PM Nawaz’s resignation is “unconstitutional” – I have repeatedly said it was a “maximalist” demand which in politics means that you will ultimately settle for lesser but substantive...
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Why Nawaz Sharif is lying? - PM Nawaz was compelled to do this U-Turn on the floor of the Parliament because his assumption of Army intervention quickly succeeding into browbeating Imran Khan back fired and sharp...