Writings

Qurbani, Ritual and Religion

Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times | Today we have unique challenges: we have the Islamists but without the spirit of Islam; we have democracy without the democrats and we have liberals without liberalism My parental home was like most homes in Pakistan. Each...
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times | TED founders describe themselves as a community of knowledge seekers. Each year they select three gifted individuals for the TED Prize and part of the prize is being granted one wish to change the world. My childhood...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Ken Livingstone’s defeat at the hands of Boris Johnson in the elections for the Mayor of Greater London, last week, was the end of an era. It was a development bigger than the city of...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | It is unfortunate that how even United Nations Offices in Geneva were made to issue warnings to Pakistan for executing Children. Little did these NGO's realized or perhaps little did they care that how their false...
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...
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...
Moeed Pirzada | The Nation | The senseless massacre of innocent Christian worshippers – men, women and children – at the gates of ‘All Saints Church’ in Peshawar is unprecedented not only in Pakistan’s troubled Odyssey with TTP and other medieval reincarnations...

Virtual Democracy Set

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, is now the President of Pakistan. We must congratulate him for it is time to admit that his intelligence, patience and political skills have yielded results. And there...
Moeed Pirzada | Tribune | Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appears to be caught in a political nutcracker, mostly of his own making. On May 11, it was Imran Khan who stood, amidst thunderous applause, at Islamabad’s D-chowk demanding: electoral reforms, thumbprint verifications in...
Pakistan’s monthly power outages among highest in Asia: Asian Development Bank KARACHI: Pakistan needs massive investment in energy infrastructure as the country endures one of the region’s highest numbers of power outages, causing heavy losses to industry, said the Asian...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Hi! as you all know Senator John Kerry is in Pakisan. He is a great visionary, a man of advanced consciousness, an able statesman, and a leader who thinks in terms of positive solutions for the...

Mother of All Elections?

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | People forget about creators while their creations live on and multiply. In the six years since then the expression has changed its meaning, more than once. Today it reminds you of a Pakistan where young...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Off Floods, Lion & the Monkey:- Once upon a time a Lion was going on vacations; Monkeys demanded that since they have never been the King of the Jungle this time around their Chief Monkey should...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | From Ms. Fahmida Khan on this Page: - There is a provocative proposal at the tail end. Moeed Pirzada, After watching your programe yesterday, I couldn't stop myself penning down my thoughts around "Political Dynasties and Future...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | There are moments when history is made; when in a flash the future divorces the past and world moves into the next stage. Tiny Georgia’s failed attempt to regain the lost South Ossetia and the Russian attack...