Tag: #pakistan
Time to Look Beyond Hamid Karzai
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Lies, denials and propaganda don’t change realities. Truth has a nasty habit of sneaking out. And sometimes it even bombards. In...
The War Needs to be Won, at Any Cost
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...
Independent Pakistan: A Prisoner of Its own Ideology?
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
CALL it irony or comedy but the fact is that at its 61st anniversary Islamic Republic of Pakistan, that has always...
US Double Standards
Moeed Pirzada | The News |
The turn of events since the bombings of the Indian embassy in Kabul should be of interest to anyone interested in...
Obama and the World
Moeed Pirzada | The News |
US Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, sharing breakfast with the US soldiers in a canteen in Kabul, and patting affectionately on...
Making Sense of Nuclear Divide in Musharraf Country
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr AQ Khan’s recent pronouncements implicating President Musharraf and the army in clandestine nuclear proliferation, and the storm...
Nuclear Divide of Politics
Moeed Pirzada | The News |
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s statements are being treated as an individual act of desperation. Far from that the ease of restrictions...
A Forgotten President and Shape of Things to Come
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
Gen. Musharraf, once the darling of the mini-screen, has gradually disappeared from the Pakistani television. Some days ago even the most...
Dinner with the President?
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...
Fighting the Wrong War
Moeed Pirzada | The News |
With the confirmation of Sen Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for the US presidential election and with President Bush’s last...
US Diplomacy of Desperation?
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, Ms. Anne Patterson, was distributing awards in a ceremony organised by Roots College International in Islamabad when...
View: Murder, media and intolerance : Moeed Pirzada
Moeed Pirzada | Daily Times |
In a media driven and controlled by popular and often pedestrian national moods, it is no wonder that no one had...
Comment: YouTube and all of us: Moeed Pirzada
Moeed Pirzada | Daily times |
Immanuel Kant in his 1795 essay, "Perpetual Peace" had argued that it is not the state of peace but the state...
Age of Interdependence
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
In days of such “narrow focus” the wider world gets blurred. No wonder few have paid attention to the kaleidoscope...
Post Election Fault Lines
Moeed Pirzada | Khaleej Times |
These overtures were a must to ensure the continuity of US strategic interests in a period of transition. However, it...