Articles & Blogs

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...
Moeed Pirzada  | Daily Times | To most Pakistanis, Salala was a deliberate act of ‘punishment’ meted out by the Pentagon for failing to cooperate or playing ‘double games’ as it is repeatedly alleged by US officials and media Will Pakistan be able...
Moeed Pirzada | The Nation | IF what Dr Tahirul Qadri presented as the contours of his seven-point agenda from Lahore on Saturday is an American or international brain wave –as key politicians have been telling us for the past several...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Why Imran & PTI should compromise on Resignation of PM Nawaz in lieu of a genuinely empowered Judicial Commission backed by a Joint Investigation Team with ISI & MI as components? Because the real progress in Pakistani...

HI LAHORE …!

Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | What have we learnt from Fall of Dacca in our Politics? TV Recording in Lahore, Univ of Central Punjab, 3pm, on Tue 16th Dec, open to all students & professionals in Lahore. Students & professional,...
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 primitive of the ships, the state broadcaster, was asked to dump him. But then last...

Loose Pillar

Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE | The struggle for the soul of Pakistani media has entered a very interesting phase. “Law of Unintended Consequences” is following its own logic. Someone had thought the media could be easily used to destroy the Supreme...

Failure for Whom ?

Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | A court in Karachi has accepted a Letter from US Embassy to set this man - Joel Cox - free and ordered Police to return his things back to him. US Embassy Letter says that US...

Re-interpreting The Message

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | On the second day of Eid Al Adha, in Pakistan, GEO TV marked its partial comeback on the country’s cables by showing Mustapha Akkad’s timeless masterpiece: The Message. With cables now reaching almost 10 million...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | A Conversation with Dr. Tahir ul Qadri on why he called off his Dharna and If he is going to Canada? - Friends started texting me today that Dr. Qadri has again decided to leave for...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog Modi Govt upset about growing Pak-Afghan thaw & improved relations between Islamabad and Kabul and its intelligence apparatus may plan something in the region to divert attention and to bring Islamabad under pressure internationally and to...
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 filmmakers Sabiha Soomar and Dr Sathanathan. Sabiha is Pakistani but her co-producer, Dr Sathanathan, is Sri...

Not a Banana Republic!

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | I write these lines in a state of euphoria. A prominent Pakistani columnist is often accused by his jealous critics that he writes his columns after getting a little tipsy. But in my case all...
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times |   It is time to take a step back and find new solutions, solutions beyond carrot and stick diplomacy. Let's not turn the Raymond Davis affair into the murder of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. Despite its many...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Is there a method to this madness? Perhaps there is; crowd stopped short of the D-Chowk. Remember D-Chowk is not Parliament but is the point where offices of GEO and many other banks lie, many many...