Moeed Pirzada | The News |
This week, hundreds of thousands of people across Pakistan ended up watching the documentary “Dinner with the President” co-produced by acclaimed filmmakers Sabiha Soomar and Dr Sathanathan.
Sabiha is Pakistani but her co-producer, Dr Sathanathan, is Sri...
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times |
To most Pakistanis, Salala was a deliberate act of ‘punishment’ meted out by the Pentagon for failing to cooperate or playing ‘double games’ as it is repeatedly alleged by US officials and media
Will Pakistan be able...
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times |
It is time to take a step back and find new solutions, solutions beyond carrot and stick diplomacy. Let's not turn the Raymond Davis affair into the murder of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. Despite its many...
Moeed Pirzada | The Nation |
Dr Tahirul Qadri’s long march will continue to inspire debate in Pakistani politics for several more weeks. The kaleidoscope of events he unleashed was complete with all ingredients of a modern soap opera: thousands and thousands...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
What can Pakistan & PM Nawaz do for Saudi Arabia? - While all eyes inside Pakistan were galvanized at the Senate Elections, PM Nawaz was being received personally by Saudi King Shah Salman bin Abdul Aziz...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
Hi! written word has one great advantage over the spoken word that you can always go back and check...read my last status update again, and don't make wrong judgements; I am not blaming Pakistan or India...I...
Moeed Pirzada | The Nation |
The latest terrorist attack in Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar, on Sunday, third within the bloody week, since the attack on All Saints Church may now make Imran Khan and PTI look like political buffoons; but the...
Moeed Pirzada | PIQUE |
The struggle for the soul of Pakistani media has entered a very interesting phase. “Law of Unintended Consequences” is following its own logic. Someone had thought the media could be easily used to destroy the Supreme...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
What is Polarization? I suspect most of you or perhaps most in Pakistan don't fully understand what it means. Polarization is when a society or polity splits in extreme ends, without a connecting middle ground. Pakistan...
Moeed Pirzada | The Nation |
IF what Dr Tahirul Qadri presented as the contours of his seven-point agenda from Lahore on Saturday is an American or international brain wave –as key politicians have been telling us for the past several...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
Over the last two days, I have read through most of your 900-plus responses with your brief profiles, careers you follow, the cities you live, universities you have been to, organizations you work and above all...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog |
Some Reflections on Pakistan's troubled Kashmir Policy - Success has many fathers and claimants but usually no one is prepared to own up a failure. While in changed global circumstances Pakistan's Kashmir Policy or actions in...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive” was how the young Wordsworth had eulogised the energy and feverishness of the French Revolution. Two hundred and nineteen years later another Bastille has fallen: America has elected its first black...
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US is not stupid, it is history's only super power that is actually an hyper power and has great institutional strength to analyse and plan ahead. They are trying to achieve atleast three things: One, they are putting...
Moeed Pirzada|The Nation|
Council on Foreign Relations is blue planet’s foremost think tank and “Foreign Affairs” is its prestigious and most sought after publication. If one searches the term “Afghanistan” on its website, several dozen pieces spring up in few...