In the morning of 27th April, Pakistani public was bombarded with the front page stories in leading English and Urdu papers of a media group closely aligned with the government, stories that claimed that International Consortium of Investigative Journalists...
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World Economic Forum (WEF) top management kept hoping till the very end that Pakistani PM, Imran Khan, may be persuaded to join the Forum's annual meeting in the Swiss mountainous city of Davos. Sources familiar with World...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | Pique Magazine |
It was early 2006; I was in a small office at the backend of 10-Duke Street, not very far from Selfridges and looking straight onto his face. Seated across the table was someone most...
For the past six weeks, PPP leaders have been playing the ‘Punjabi gallery’ and playing well with rhetoric, acrobatics of emotion and feigned anger to present themselves as an ‘opposition’ to the reign of Nawaz Sharif. Moment of truth...
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt had once said about Nicaraguan strongman, Anastosio Somoza, that: “he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch”. Since then American political jargon has become more black and white. These days...
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times |
In all fairness, the Raymond Davis saga, irrespective of the technicalities being discussed in Pakistan, may prove a fit case for the world to review the whole concept of ‘diplomatic immunity’
When Secretary Clinton came to Pakistan...
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ISLAMABAD - More details are emerging on the nature of strikes Pakistani Army did inside the Afghan territory - after the terrorist attack against the Sufi Shrine, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in city of Sehwan Sharif, in Sindh-...
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Dear All, Many of you will remember Imtiaz Khan who passionately contributed to the debates on this page. Heated arguments between him and Himanshu amused many and irritated others. I have learnt that he died on 30th...
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...
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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 isolate it..???
This...
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Ref: Last Night Discussion on Form-14 Verifications: - Discussion with Mudassar Rizvi & Fawad was a bit technical but very important to current political crisis and negotiations. What we all need to understand is that the fundamental,...
A question was asked in US State Dept briefing that given accusations of corruption and demands by Pakistani Political parties that PM Nawaz Sharif resign, what will US do? Will it continue to support the democratically elected Prime Minister...
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Many political changes, upheavals of one or the other kind, throughout the twentieth century have often been referred to as: “revolutions”. The term has been used loosely enough to refer to a pro-western change in Georgia,...
The author is an affiliate of Conference of Defence Associations Institute and a political and defence analyst with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy. In the backdrop of a debate on an alleged leak in...
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Mir Shakil ur Rehman, owner of GEO TV, overplayed his hand two days ago when he erroneously believed or was made to believe that his direct attack on ISI and Army will help in firing the ISI Chief....