Writings

Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Why attack a Navl Base in Karachi? Who could do it?... because "someone" is trying to send the message to the whole world that Pakistani military's claim that its garrisons and installations are safe is not...
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 | 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 | FB Blog 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...
Moeed Pirzada | Read this news story “Details of the Close Combat at PNS Mehran” by “Mayed Ali” in today’s The News (25th May) and ask yourself question that what kind of commandos had trained these commandos? why similarly trained...
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...
Moeed Pirzada| Donald Trump has finally moved into the White House. Given United States's role of a global hegemon, in every capital of the world, from Mexico City to Berlin, from Kabul to Tbilisi it is being discussed: What does...
Moeed Pirzada | Newsline | The staged interview of Malik Riaz was no doubt a shock. The furious debate that has raged across Pakistani society is understandable. Politicians, civil society leaders, academia, social media communities and housewives are all livid. The media has...
Moeed Pirzada | At least 10 people including Traffic DIG Ahmed Mobin were killed and more than 80 others were injured on Monday, Feb 13, in an explosion near the Punjab Assembly in Lahore. DSP Pervez Butt, SSP East Zahid Nawaz...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | NAWAZ Sharif has finally decided to contest the polls. APDM has thrown PML(N) out — as if it really mattered at this point. While the protests in LUMS and vigils in Lahore might continue things...

TV Belt and the Outsider

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...
Pakistani Establishment & Nawaz Sharif: Fighting a Noora Kushti? by Waqar Ahmed Nawaz Sharif has either outsmarted and defeated the Establishment or both are fighting a 'Noora Kushti' for public consumption? This provocative piece is a note written by Waqar...
Moeed Pirzada | 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 be...
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 | While many of our friends are up in arms on Maulana Abdul Aziz’s disgusting comments for which he must show regret and profusely apologize few have read the piece written in New York Times by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa’s...