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Moeed Pirzada | We have heard that PM Nawaz will undergo Open Heart Surgery on Tuesday, 2nd June – May Allah grant him complete recovery and health to be able to perform his job and execute his responsibilities. However given his...

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Moeed Pirzada | What have we learnt from Fall of Dacca in our Politics? TV Recording in Lahore, Univ of Central Punjab, 3pm, on Tue 16th Dec, open to all students & professionals in Lahore. Students & professional, both...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Pakistan’s Chief of Army Fights to Keep His Job By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s army chief, the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save his position in the face of seething...
CDA Institute Security & Defence Blogger Adnan Qaiser, a political and defence analyst with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy, examines factors hindering India’s rise to global prominence. James Feibleman had stated, “A myth is a...
Sunday 24th April probably deserves a small footnote in Pakistan’s political history. With Imran Khan of PTI announcing a ‘Campaign against Corruption’ from Fatima Jinnah Park in Islamabad; Jammat-e-Islami organizing a ‘Dharna’ (Sit Down Protest) against Corruption in Lahore, with...
Moeed Pirzada | Lawyers Movement or “Adlia Bahali Tehreek” (Restoration of Judiciary) occupies an important chapter in Pakistan’s colourful political history. Kickstarted on 9th March 2007, when the then Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was suspended by President Musharraf and...
Moeed Pirzada | The Sunday morning attack at the Indian military base at Uri, in Kashmir, 10 km inside the LOC, that has left 17 soldiers dead and many more injured has created new shock waves in an already tense...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | These are great times. Pakistani state, civil society and the judiciary are in a state of flux. Some observers are convinced that a new nation is being born, out of the throes of the old....
Pakistan’s monthly power outages among highest in Asia: Asian Development Bank KARACHI: Pakistan needs massive investment in energy infrastructure as the country endures one of the region’s highest numbers of power outages, causing heavy losses to industry, said the Asian...
Moeed Pirzada | Hi! thanks to all Hindu members of this Forum who have taken time and effort to write detailed paras to let us understand how they see their faith and its evolution in modern times. I cannot thank...
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 | While Imran Khan’s government showed a robust activity on all fronts, be it the economy, accountability or clean and green Pakistan; nothing matches the speed through which it positively moved inside the complex foreign policy arena. Engaging the...
France and its revolutionary ideas have given much to the world. From Rousseau and Voltaire to Emile Durkheim to Fernand Braudel – the historian and leader of the Annales School whose work, “History of Civilizations” was a treat for...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Shafqat Hussain Death Penalty Case - I am shocked how so many educated people are commenting on this without first understanding the facts. Human Right NGO's have planted this lie in public mind that somehow Shafqat...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | While FATF (Financial Action Task Force) proceedings at Paris, were non-transparent and Pakistan’s troubles at FATF are not single dimensional, perhaps more political than professional; better understood in the context of difficult US Pakistan relations over...