Moeed Pirzada

Moeed Hasan Pirzada () is a Pakistani-British political commentator, geostrategic analyst and television news journalist. He hosts a program on 92 News called 'Hard Talk'. He has interviewed many politicians from many different countries, and has written columns for national newspapers.
Personal life.
One of four siblings, with a sister and two brothers, 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."
Career.
Pirzada obtained his MBBS at Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, and subsequently secured 17th position in the CSS examination.
He has worked with Waqt News, and hosted the "Tonight With Moeed Pirzada" show. He has also been a Director for World Affairs and Head of Content at PTV News, and hosted the famous talk show "Sochta Pakistan", a program on which he discussed national, regional, strategic, social and educational issues with politicians, analysts and policy makers. He has worked with Dunya News-TV channel as a Director for World Affairs and hosted the current affairs talk show "Dunya Today". He written for Dubai-based regional paper Khaleej Times. His columns have appeared in major Pakistani papers such as "Dawn", The News International, Daily Times, Friday Times and blogs. He has attended national and international conferences, seminars and policy workshops and has been a member of the Prime Ministerial Education Task Force that collaborated with the British Council to produce the Next Generation Report. He has contributed policy papers to the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and also written several policy pieces for Pique Magazine. He is an Executive Director of Governance and Policy Advisors (GAPA), which provides consultancy services to government institutions, development organizations and corporate bodies on issues related to media, governance, health policy and regional peace. Pirzada now hosts program "Hard Talk" on 92 News.
Media achievements.
As a TV journalist, he has interviewed Pakistani and foreign notables including Benazir Bhutto, David Cameron, Hamid Karzai, Mahmood Abbas, William Dalrymple, Jaswant Singh, Richard Holbrooke, Mike Mullen 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 that the US security comoany 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. 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'. 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.
References.
https://www.facebook.com/100004970147230/posts/1713009295541392/