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Moeed Pirzada | Specter, Latest James Bond Movie & why it’s so amazing? Bond movies have always been a barometer of global political agenda, of evolving thought, of how London & Washington are looking at the developing issues and who...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Apologies & Regrets Easy but Accepting Mistake Difficult: This afternoon I was hit by a motorist. She was waiting at a cross-section to a major road, and I, a pedestrian, was about to cross a small,...
Moeed Pirzada | Slap on the face of Pakistani Media..? I have posted a story from India’s most liberal paper, The Hindu. The story describes the attack on the Pakistani prisoner, Sanna Ullah, in an Indian Jail in Jammu. The opening...
Moeed Pirzada | Hi! At a time when Pakistan’s foreign Secretary Salman Bashir was holding a press briefing on the Post-Osama Bin Laden Killing Issues, a select group of Pakistani media was invited to meet a few senior military and...
Peace Agreement signed in Doha between the US and Taliban is certainly historic and a moral victory for Pakistan. But New Delhi is bound to see it as a strategic reversal and will react in its own ways. Without...

Is Nawaz Sharif lying?

Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Why Nawaz Sharif is lying? - PM Nawaz was compelled to do this U-Turn on the floor of the Parliament because his assumption of Army intervention quickly succeeding into browbeating Imran Khan back fired and sharp...
Moeed Pirzada | I came to the DGMO Pakistan Military’s briefing on 29th Nov traumatized and almost convinced that NATO may have attacked the Pakistani posts in Mohmand Agency as part of some “operation punishment”. But while Gen. Ashfaq was being...
Moeed Pirzada | Shah Mehmood Qureshi while talking in my program on Dunya News on Fri, 13th April hinted that Zardari has lost control on PPP; he argued, albeit cautiously, that Zardari is no more running the show and Bilawal...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Time Line of Violence in Islamabad - Given continuous claims & counterclaims and official lies its important to know how it all started. Protestors marched towards the road that enters the Civil Secretariat, they started to...
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...
PPP and PMLN, Pakistan’s main opposition parties that intend to de-seat Prime Minister Imran Khan through a vote of no confidence are banking on PTI MNA’s elected on PTI tickets to defect PTI and vote against PM Imran Khan. However...
Moeed Pirzada | Why Imran & PTI should compromise on Resignation of PM Nawaz in lieu of a genuinely empowered Judicial Commission backed by a Joint Investigation Team with ISI & MI as components? Because the real progress in Pakistani democratic...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | This relates to today's program (Sat, 17th Dec) This program had a limited and defined focus on certain key aspects and questions related to the break-up of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh in Dec...
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...
Mullahs turn everything into Islam vs the Un-Islamic. This polarizes the public and reduces the quality of debate. But irrespective of what Mullahs say, there are serious risks with the kind of hasty social legislation Pakistani Political elite are pushing through to appease west. Such legislation should only be passed after wider and substantive debate.