Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
The rot may have been brewing for a while. The natural thought, “what will I get?” must have dominated many minds from the moment they descended upon Naudero and Gari Khuda Baksh to bury the...
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 | 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 |
Clearly defined and understood parameters of engagement will prevent the US and its allies from being sucked inadvertently into a large conflict of incalculable dimensions Fyodor Dostoevsky had once written: "Nothing is easier than to denounce...
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...
Moeed Pirzada | Express Tribune |
I arrived at the director-general military operation’s briefing on November 29 traumatised and almost convinced that NATO may have attacked the Pakistani posts in Mohmand Agency as part of “Operation Punishment”.
But while Major-General Ishfaq Nadeem was...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
This is both a moment for inspiration and challenge for Pakistan. But whereas the inspiration is theoretical, the challenge is far more real and lies in near future. Interestingly, Pakistan too has just appointed a new...
Moeed Pirzada | The Nation |
I was listening to Abu Mazen. This is how the Arab people and many Middle Eastern diplomats in Islamabad refer to Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine. This is coup d’état. He was talking of his...
Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE |
A leading politician in Punjab, a PML-N hard hitter, recently confided in me: “TV has changed my politics; I don’t have to spend as much time in the constituency, my voters love me for this national...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
BARACK Obama’s whirlwind trip to Afghanistan, Iraq and the world was to burnish his credentials as the ‘would be’ Commander in Chief of the world’s sole superpower. But it ended up raising interesting questions; questions which...
Moeed Pirzada |
There remains a powerful, persistent, possibly growing, but certainly undying, mystic belief held by millions of Pakistanis, not only Sindhis but Punjabis, Baluchis and Pathan Frontiersmen as well, that “Shaheed (martyr) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was never hanged,...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
To most Americans and to many of us it was received wisdom that a democrat will win the US Elections in 2008. not anymore. Many analysts fear this may not happen. They point out while Clinton...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Many years ago I fell in love with Bosphorus, its bridges, fishermen and Turkey. This affair still continues. But just like the evolution of all passions in our lives my reasons have changed.
Eighteen years ago, I...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
In Pakistani collective consciousness, not a leaf dares tremble without the permission of either the Army or America. Together they share Allah’s sovereignty from the edges of the Arabian Sea to the mountain passes across...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
General (retd) Musharraf’s recent interview with Singapore’s The Straits Times was widely misquoted, misrepresented and blown out of proportion. His words referring to the US — “...I challenge anybody to come into our mountains.
They would regret...