Writings

Moeed Pirzada | Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has been sacked from his position after a preliminary investigative report indicating his role in the ‘Dawn Planted Story’ of October 6th. It has been reported that an investigation jointly conducted by IB,...

Lost History …!

Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers and Artists. By Michael Hamilton Morgan, (National Geographic) - Anyone interested in reading a brilliant analytical account of what happened between Islam and West and when, where...
Moeed Pirzada | Attention: LESCO A young female engineer sent me this email. I may raise this issue in TV programs, but that is still at least 15 days later. Meanwhile I want feedback from other Engineers & Job Applicants who...
Elections 2020 have stained the American democracy, and the toxic political divide will continue to polarize the US politics for an indefinite period – unless some societal leadership or intellectual movement emerges that comes up with new solutions to...
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...
Moeed Pirzada | Why is Modi Govt retching up tensions at LOC? – Apparently for two reasons: One, it wants to use Pakistan card in the state elections in Maharashtra and Haryana and Second, it is signaling that it wants...
How could two be related? Blasphemy Laws and Woman Protection Act? These two pieces of legislation look so different. How on earth some one in right mind can find a relation between these two. And yet this is where...
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 | Daily Times | Imran Khan did not have the charisma of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto or the oratorical skills of Benazir, but what he had, in his simple straightforward words, was something different "Bliss was it in that dawn...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blogs | Yes! I was only cautious when I wrote my last one liner...people were still gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan; but then they came from all directions, and they came with their wives, and wives with their husbands, they...
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...
In November, Covid-19 claimed a very unusual and controversial life in Pakistan. Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the founder of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), died on 19th November in Lahore. He was suffering from fever and breathing difficulties – though he never got himself...
Scotland Yard, the investigative arm of British Police has dropped all charges related to money laundering against MQM leader Altaf Hussain. Charges have also been dropped against his party comrades - Mohd Anwar and Sarfaraz Merchant. Details can be...
Moeed Pirzada | Why it is vital for ECP to call Army to supervise Elections in NA-149 Multan on 16th October?- Given today’s application by Punjab Govt to Election Commission to postpone/delay elections in Multan constituency for fear of violence...

PM Nawaz speech at UNGA…!

Moeed Pirzada | PM Nawaz Speech at UNGA was not bad. If anything it was a good balanced speech. Off course it was not written by Nawaz; he would not even grasp some of the concepts or terms -or their...