Moeed Pirzada |
A court in Karachi has accepted a Letter from US Embassy to set this man – Joel Cox – free and ordered Police to return his things back to him. US Embassy Letter says that US officials...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada |
As I write these lines, large crowds in Kasur, a historic city near Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab are battling police and several men have been shot - as being reported by TV channels....
Dr. Moeed Pirzada
Islamabad - Indian saboteur, RAW's Commander Kulbhashan Jadhav had also planned to blow up Pakistani consulate in Zahedan, Iran in a military style attack - Pakistani media learnt this, amidst other unnerving details in background briefings and...
Moeed Pirzada |
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 planting...
Moeed Pirzada |
Narendra Modi first thundered about Baluchistan in an all party meeting on Kashmir on 12th August, threatening Pakistan that if it did not stop interfering in Kashmir then India will expose Pakistan’s atrocities in Baluchistan. Hope when...
Moeed Pirzada |
Altaf Hussain’s latest Political Blunder? It’s true that MQM and its leadership is under unprecedented pressure and Altaf Hussain isolated in the UK has to react, show potency and power and political leverage, to sustain hopes and aspirations...
Moeed Pirzada |
Mullahs turn everything into a battle for and against Islam. This is wrong and plain stupid. And it also contributes to the overall ‘mediocrity of Pakistani discourse’. Once an issue becomes “mullahs versus the rest” as Maulana...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada |
Dr. Farooq Sattar, MQM Pakistan's embattled leader while delivering a passioned speech against his detractors, on Sunday, thundered that, "I can not become Mamnoon Hussain". Speech was televised, rather chunks of the speech containing that part,...
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PM Nawaz Meeting with President Obama – I just read Munir Akram’s piece, “Washington Challenge” and I genuinely felt sympathy for PM Nawaz Sharif. He is up against a huge challenge and needs our support.
As per past...
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), came back into the limelight after it took responsibility for an audacious attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on June 29. Four BLA militants stormed the PSX building and killed three...
9/11 terror attacks in New York remind us of the darkest day in US history when Al-Qaeda terrorists, apparently masterminded by Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan, terrorized the powerful US nation and, in the process, changed the geo-political dynamics...
Pakistani politics enters mid-2021 amidst interesting national and regional developments; some of these are under the public radar – for instance, the fast-changing situation in Afghanistan – but these could be far-reaching.
The opposition alliance, PDM, has not been able...
Last week I had the opportunity to spend a whole day at National Command and Operational Centre (NCOC) and I left with this palpable feeling that Corona Pandemic has induced Pakistan into creating a quintessential national institution – in...
What will be remembered as the “Asad Toor Affair” has badly exposed the unprofessionalism and moral bankruptcy of Pakistani media, civil-military fault lines of the country, and helplessness of Pakistani state institutions in handling the challenges of globalization and...
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall died on 19th May, 1936. Today, few in the Muslim world remember him but maybe they should for he was the first Englishman to come up with a credible translation of Muslim’s Holy book, Quran, into English.
Pickthall...