Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
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...
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 |
Over the last two days, I have read through most of your 900-plus responses with your brief profiles, careers you follow, the cities you live, universities you have been to, organizations you work and above all...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
Some Reflections on Pakistan's troubled Kashmir Policy - Success has many fathers and claimants but usually no one is prepared to own up a failure. While in changed global circumstances Pakistan's Kashmir Policy or actions in...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive” was how the young Wordsworth had eulogised the energy and feverishness of the French Revolution. Two hundred and nineteen years later another Bastille has fallen: America has elected its first black...
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US is not stupid, it is history's only super power that is actually an hyper power and has great institutional strength to analyse and plan ahead. They are trying to achieve atleast three things: One, they are putting...
Moeed Pirzada|The Nation|
Council on Foreign Relations is blue planet’s foremost think tank and “Foreign Affairs” is its prestigious and most sought after publication. If one searches the term “Afghanistan” on its website, several dozen pieces spring up in few...
Moeed Pirzada | Pakistan Herald |
While most Pakistanis complain of a media blitz against their country and society few have given serious thought to what this means in the longer term.It may be time to realize that in the evolving information...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
How PPP and PML(N) — despite the Murree Accord — will ultimately resolve their different approaches towards the restoration of judges remains to be seen; but recent developments in the context of the war against...
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...
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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 | Khaleej Times |
No single event in Pakistan’s recent history, despite all its scars, has inspired more comment, more heated discussion and more disagreement than the terrorist destruction of the Hotel Marriott in Islamabad last week. And yet 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...
Moeed Pirzada |Pakistan Today|
Grappling with the puzzle
What will happen in Afghanistan once the US and allies withdraw the bulk of their forces? Will Afghan Security Forces hold and for how long? Will Taliban overrun the periphery? Will Kabul be...
Moeed Pirzada | Chowk.com |
Few years ago, Shahbaz Bhatti confided in a friend: “ I don’t want to get married, because I know that sooner or later an assassin’s bullet will find me; it will only be unfair to that woman...