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Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj, completed her 19 - 20 minute speech at United Nations General Assembly short while ago. She spent first 9 minutes talking of the need to fight poverty, talking of the 400,000 plus toilettes which...
Moeed Pirzada | Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj, completed her 19 – 20 minute speech at United Nations General Assembly short while ago. She spent first 9 minutes talking of the need to fight poverty, talking of the 400,000 plus...
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...
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 regional atmosphere....
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 regional atmosphere....
Altaf Hussain's incitement to violence and exhortation to attack media channels has many dimensions and while he may look like acting in sheer frustration, its quite possible that he is acting on being prompted from some quarters - and 'hunger...
Moeed Pirzada | Altaf Hussain’s incitement to violence and exhortation to attack media channels has many dimensions and while he may look like acting in sheer frustration, its quite possible that he is acting on being prompted from some quarters...
I was watching Dr. Tahir ul Qadri's today's unusual speech (20th Aug, 2016) to the workers and supporters of his movement, Pakistan Awami Tehrik, (PAT). This was part of his overall Qisas Movement that seeks justice for the victims...
From the pusillanimous response of Nawaz government to Narendra Modi's absurd pronouncements on Baluchistan one wonders where is Baluchistan located? Is this a part of Pakistan like Punjab, Sindh and KPK or is an independent or disputed territory lying...
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...

Is Ch. Nisar being sacked?

Rumor mills from Lahore to Islamabad are alive with the buzz that PM Nawaz Sharif has finally decided to sack his Interior Minster, Ch.Nisar Ali Khan. With his audacious uncompromising stand on issues of national security, Indian intervention in...

Is Ch. Nisar being sacked?

Moeed Pirzada | With his audacious uncompromising stand on issues of national security, Indian intervention in Pakistan, relations with PPP and what appeared as a calcuated defiance to the Sharif dynasty, Nisar was always an ‘odd man’ of PMLN. A...
What are India and Pakistan upto? What is going on behind the scenes? Who is sending desperate messages to whom? How come Pakistan suddenly makes an offer to India for talks on Kashmir? And how come India which has...
Media turns non-issues into issues! This was not expected of you! you are a sober anchor, a responsible media person, (or perhaps were!!) but you have become like that Anchor; he named country's most controversial Anchor of all times....
Moeed Pirzada | Ahsen Iqbal was polite in his tone but furious with his words. He was calling from Narowal, and protesting to me about the segment I did with Ejaz Haroon, Ex-MD PIA about the use of PIA Boeing-777...