Essays & Policy Papers

Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE Magazine | Mantras of foreign policy – laced with juicy terms like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran – may have been mentioned in presidential debates but Barack Obama fought and won his re-elections against Mitt Romney on fault lines...
Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE | Emperor with a grim vacuous expression in his eyes is surrounded with courtiers, whose faces are beaming with the intensity and excitement reminiscent of the cheering crowds of Ancient Rome’s gladiator Arena. With gestures of his thumb pointing...
Moeed Pirzada  | PAKISTAN KA KHUDA HAFIZ | Pakistan’s electronic media has made huge strides in the last one decade. Today this industry has a massive structure and thousands of journalists, executives and technical professionals are directly or indirectly part of it....
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | The decision of the Pakistan Cable Broadcasters Association to ban BBC World Service in Pakisan is unwise. The Cable Association and all their advisers ought to know that this is merely an emotional reactive decision and...
Policy Paper - Kashmir: Indian Strategic Initiative Since 9/11 and Imperative By Dr. Moeed Pirzada IPRI :: Islamabad Policy Research Institute The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York laid the foundation for emerging new world order, to which both...
Policy Paper - WTO: The Challenge Ahead by Dr Moeed Pirzada IPRI ::Islamabad Policy Research Institute This paper intends to examine the achievements, failures and future challenges faced by World Trade Organisation (WTO). It discusses the circumstances that gave birth to the...