Writings

Moeed Pirzada | Pakistan Herald | While most Pakistanis complain of a media blitz against their country and society few have given serious thought to what this means in the longer term.It may be time to realize that in the evolving information...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | How PPP and PML(N) — despite the Murree Accord — will ultimately resolve their different approaches towards the restoration of judges remains to be seen; but recent developments in the context of the war against...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Congratulations! to all of you on this page; we have now become a community of more than 300,000 people, across Pakistan, India, UK, Europe, UAE and US and many other countries and amongst you there are...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Title: EXCLUSIVE: Jeb Bush resigns all board memberships with eye on 2016 Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, moving closer to a possible presidential run, has stepped down as a paid adviser to a for-profit education company that...
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | No single event in Pakistan’s recent history, despite all its scars, has inspired more comment, more heated discussion and more disagreement than the terrorist destruction of the Hotel Marriott in Islamabad last week. And yet it...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | The decision of the Pakistan Cable Broadcasters Association to ban BBC World Service in Pakisan is unwise. The Cable Association and all their advisers ought to know that this is merely an emotional reactive decision and...
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...
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...

Suicide Bombers and US

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Mr Zardari, Ms Bhutto’s widower, were able to reconcile their differences for a historic accord that promises the restoration of judiciary sacked by President Musharraf. And it appears that...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | Is there a method to this madness? Perhaps there is; crowd stopped short of the D-Chowk. Remember D-Chowk is not Parliament but is the point where offices of GEO and many other banks lie, many many...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | PMLN's Policy to use "terror" against political opposition and Media - History is long. Today's attack against PTI workers near Jehlum on a day of PTI Rally fits neatly into that pattern of creating fear through...
Moeed Pirzada | FB Blog | While many of our friends are up in arms on Maulana Abdul Aziz's disgusting comments for which he must show regret and profusely apologize few have read the piece written in New York Times by Dr....

Virtual Democracy Set

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, is now the President of Pakistan. We must congratulate him for it is time to admit that his intelligence, patience and political skills have yielded results. And there...
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times | In all fairness, the Raymond Davis saga, irrespective of the technicalities being discussed in Pakistan, may prove a fit case for the world to review the whole concept of ‘diplomatic immunity’ When Secretary Clinton came to Pakistan...

Mother of All Elections?

Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times | People forget about creators while their creations live on and multiply. In the six years since then the expression has changed its meaning, more than once. Today it reminds you of a Pakistan where young...