Moeed Pirzada

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Moeed Pirzada
معید پیرزادہ
Born Moeed Pirzada
(1966-07-29) 29 July 1966 (age 57)
Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Education MBBS, Masters in Media & Internet Regulations, London School of Economics & Political Science

Britannia Chevening Scholar, (MSc 2003)[1]

Masters in International Finance & Economic Policy, Columbia University,

(MIA 2002)[2]
Occupation Anchor/Journalist/Analyst/Policy Expert[3]
Notable credit(s) .
Interviewed leading National & International figures including, Hillary Clinton,Pervez Musharraf,David Cameron,Jaswant Singh,Imran Khan,Richard Holbrooke Mike Mullen[4]...
Title Anchor at Dunya News
Website www.drmoeedpirzada.com

Moeed Hasan Pirzada (Urdu: معید پیرزادہ‎) is a Pakistani political commentator and a TV journalist. He is also an anchor at Dunya News and hosting TV programms.[5][6] He has interviewed many politicians around the world.[7][8][9][10][11] He also wrote columns for the leading national newspapers.[12][13]

Career

Pirzada has also joined the Express News.[citation needed] Previously, he has worked with Waqt News and hosted Tonight With Moeed Pirzada Program,[14] he has also been a Director World Affairs and Content Head of PTV News and hosted the famous talk show Sochta Pakistan,[15][16][17][18] a program that discussed national, regional, strategic, social and educational issues with politicians, analysts and policy makers. He has also worked with Dunya News-TV channel as a Director World Affairs and hosted the current affairs talk show Dunya Today.[19][20][21] He also written for Dubai-based regional paper Khaleej Times.[22][23] His columns have also appeared in major Pakistani papers such as Dawn,[24] The News International, Daily Times,[25][26] Friday Times[27] and blogs.[28] He has attended national and international conferences, seminars and policy workshops and had been a member of the Prime Minister's Education Task Force,[29] that collaborated with the British Council to produce the Next Generation Report.[30][31] He has also contributed policy papers to Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and also written several policy pieces for Pique Magazine.[32][33][34][35][36][37] He is also an Executive Director of Governance & Policy Advisors (GAPA),[38] that provides consultancy services to the government institutions, development organizations and corporate bodies on issues related to media, governance, health policy and regional peace.[39][40][41][42][43][44]

Media achievements

As a TV journalist, he has interviewed Pakistani and international decision makers including Benazir Bhutto, David Cameron, Hamid Karzai, Mahmood Abbas, William Dalrymple, Jaswant Singh, Richard Holbrooke, Mike Mullen and 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 former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf with Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh at the Non-Aligned Summit in Havana in 2006. He has covered the Pakistani Military action in Swat valley and the IDP crises in 2009. In September 2009, Anne W. Patterson appeared on his program and repudiated the existence of US Contractors "Black Water" in Pakistan; a claim that was proved untrue when Raymond Allen Davis was arrested in Lahore in January 2011.[45] When Pirzada was moderating the interaction of US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton with young Pakistani civil society activists and entrepreneurs on 21 October 2011, in Islamabad's Serena Hotel, a student created giggles by branding the American government as the 'mother-in-law of all Pakistanis'.[46][47] Pirzada had also moderated Clinton's first controversial interaction with TV anchors in October 2009, when Clinton had remarked that if Pakistanis do not want the Kerry Lugar Bill aid then they should boldly reject it.[48]

See also

References

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