Moeed Pirzada<br />معید پیرزادہ
| Moeed Pirzada معید پیرزادہ | |
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| Born | Moeed Hasan Pirzada |
| 🏫 Education | Columbia university |
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Moeed Hasan Pirzada (Urdu: معید پیرزادہ) is a Pakistani journalist, and TV anchor.
Early life and education[edit]
His late father, Dr Ghulam Mohiuddin Pirzada (d. 2015), originally from Srinagar, has been hailed as "the oldest physician of Mirpur" in Azad Kashmir as well as "the first highly-qualified medical specialist in Mirpur since the city resurfaced as a new modern township following the construction of the Mangla dam in 1967."[1]
Moeed Pirzada has been a Britannia Chevening Scholar at London School of Economics & Political Science and studied International Relations at Columbia University, New York.
He has been a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London (RIIA) and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), in the UK.
Career[edit]
Host and anchor[edit]
He has also been a Director for World Affairs and Head of Content at PTV News, and hosted the famous talk show Sochta Pakistan,[2][3]
Interviews[edit]
He has interviewed Pakistani and foreign notables including Benazir Bhutto, David Cameron, Hamid Karzai, Mahmood Abbas, William Dalrymple, Jaswant Singh, Richard Holbrooke, Mike Mullen , Ambassador Bolton, Imran Khan and the British politician George Galloway. He has covered the strategic dialogue between US and Pakistan as well as several talks between India and Pakistan, including the meeting of the former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf with the Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh at the Non-Aligned Summit in Havana in 2006.
He has covered the Pakistani military action in the Swat valley and the IDP crises in 2009. In September 2009, Anne W. Patterson appeared on his program and denied that the US security company Black Water had been operating in Pakistan; a claim that was proved untrue after the detention of Raymond Allen Davis in Lahore in January 2011.[4]
When Pirzada was moderating an event at which the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, met young Pakistani civil society activists and entrepreneurs on 21 October 2011 in Islamabad's Serena Hotel, a student elicited laughter by branding the American government as the 'mother-in-law of all Pakistanis'.[5][6] Pirzada had also moderated Clinton's first controversial appearance with TV anchors in October 2009, when she remarked that if Pakistanis did not want the Kerry Lugar Bill's aid then they should boldly reject it.[7]
Academia & Writings[edit]
He has been invited to talk to students and faculty at Harvard, Georgetown, George Washington, Columbia, University of Florida in the US. And top institutions in Pakistan like LUMS, NUST, FAST, SDPI,[8] Jinnah Institute,[9] Foreign Services Academy, Civil Services Academy, National School of Public Policy, Forman Christian College University and other institutions across the country.
He has also been a “Distinguished Visiting Faculty Member” with National Defense University (NDU), Pakistan. He has attended national and international conferences, seminars and policy workshops and has been a member of the Prime Ministerial Education Task Force[10] that collaborated with the British Council to produce the Next Generation Report.[11]
He has contributed policy papers to the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and also written several policy pieces for Pique Magazine.[12][13][14][15][16][17] He acted as an Executive Director of Governance and Policy Advisors (GAPA),[18] which provides consultancy services to government institutions, development organizations and corporate bodies on issues related to media, governance, health policy and regional peace.[19][20][21][22][23][24]
References[edit]
- ↑ Staff Reporter (15 August 2015), "Father of TV anchor laid to rest", The Nation. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ↑ "Moeed Pirzada joins PTV as Director World Affairs". Archived from the original on 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2011-02-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "PTV News, Programs List". Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "U.S a never satisfied "mother-in-law"". BBC News. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
- ↑ "U.S a never satisfied "mother-in-law" Hillary Clinton told by Pak woman". YouTube. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ↑ Walsh, Declan (2011-10-21). "Hillary Clinton visits Pakistan to urge action against Taliban militants". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ↑ "Clinton raises pressure on Pakistan to fight militants". BBC News. 2010-07-18. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ↑ "sustainable development policy". sdpi.org. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ↑ "Jinnah Institute". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ↑ "Education Task Force-British Council" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 2010-11-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Next Generation Report-British Council". Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ↑ "WTO: The Challenge Ahead". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 2002-06-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Kashmir: Indian Strategic Initiative Since 9/11-IPRI". Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Erdogan's Turkey". Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 2013-07-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Pakistan and Obama". Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 2012-12-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Will Supreme Court able to Save Media". Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 2012-08-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Case Against Drone Strikes". Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 2012-07-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "GAPA". Retrieved 2013-06-12.
- ↑ "Program with Media". Retrieved 2013-11-10.
- ↑ "Program with Media 2". Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ↑ "Program on Governance". Retrieved 2013-10-12.
- ↑ "Punjab Government". Retrieved 2013-03-12.
- ↑ "FES". Retrieved 2014-02-17.
- ↑ "FES 2". Retrieved 2014-02-18.
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