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Moeed Pirzada
is a Pakistani political commentator and TV journalist. He is currently working as Director World Affairs and lead anchor person for PTV News

PTV News

PTV News is a 24-hour state news channel in Pakistan. It provides news in English and Urdu to the Pakistani community worldwide...

-TV channel and hosts a popular talk show Sochta Pakistan, a program that discusses national, regional, strategic, social and educational issues with leading politicians, analysts and policy makers. Previously, he was working with Dunya News

Dunya News

Dunya News is an Urdu language news and current affairs television channel from Pakistan. Dunya in English means "World". Since its launch in 2008, the channel have been giving strong competition to the other news channels in the country. Dunya News is now available throughout Pakistan on local...

-TV channel as Director World Affairs and was hosting a current affair talk show Dunya Today.He has also been a columnist for Dubai based regional paper Khaleej Times

Khaleej Times

The Khaleej Times is a daily English language newspaper published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Traditionally perceived as the second most popular newspaper in the UAE, Khaleej Times has struggled to keep up its circulation and entered 2011 with a print run of just under 40,000 copies...

. His columns have also appeared in Pakistani papers like Dawn

Dawn

Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of the twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of weak sunlight, while the sun itself is still below the horizon...

, The News, The Daily Times

The Daily Times

The Daily Times is a five-day daily newspaper published in Pryor, Oklahoma, United States. It is published in the afternoon on weekdays, and in the morning on Sundays, by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc....

and Friday Times

Friday Times

The Friday Times is a Pakistani English-language independent newsweekly, based in Lahore, Pakistan. It was first published on 25 May, 1989.TFT’s editorial policy is independent as demonstrated by the national and international standing of the newspaper...

Many of such columns had been reproduced in regional websites like Chowk.com and blogs. He has widely spoken in national and international conferences, seminars and policy workshops and is a member of the Prime Minister's Education Task Force that collaborated with British Council to produce the Next Generation Report. He has also contributed policy papers to Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI).

Early life

Moeed Pirzada was born in Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...

city, near Islamabad

Islamabad

Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

in 1967. His father Dr Pirzada GM Din and mother Najma Gani were both immigrants from Srinagar

Srinagar

Srinagar is the summer seasonal capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is situated in Kashmir Valley and lies on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus. It is one of the largest cities in India not to have a Hindu majority. The city is famous for its gardens, lakes and houseboats...

, in the Indian Kashmir. His early childhood was spent in Mirpur, Pakistani or Pakistan Administered Kashmir (also called Azad Jammu & Kashmir), where his father, an Army doctor later established his thriving private practice.

Career

Pirzada qualified as a medical practitioner but did not follow medicine as a career, instead choosing to join the Central Superior Services of Pakistan in 1990, in the 18th Common Training Program (CTP)in the Customs and Excise department. He served in different parts of Pakistan as Assistant Collector and Deputy Collector for Customs(1992–2000). But he then again changed his career track when in 2000, he left the Civil Services to study first at School of International & Public Affairs, (SIPA) Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

and later at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

(LSE, 2003) and created an altogether new career when he joined an Asian TV channel, Ptv Prime,as an Anchor person, in London in 2005. He later worked, in London, UK, with another Asian television network, ARY TV, as its first Editor World Affairs for Europe. In 2007 he came back to Pakistan as Head of International Desk for GEO TV

Geo TV

Geo TV or Geo Television is a Pakistani television network, founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. The channel began test transmission on 14 August 2002, with regular transmission beginning 1 October 2002...

Network. In December 2008 he joined Dunya News

Dunya News

when it was launched .

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