The print is dead. Cross-media ownership and centralisation is going to take over. The future is digital. And now, Artificial Intelligence (AI). The debate about the fate of journalism is…

In the wake of America’s growing interest in the Indo-Pacific sphere, including the Western  Indian Ocean region, Pakistan faces continued maritime security threats from the Indian military establishment. The institution…

In theory and practice, civil-military balance is an over-arching theme of national security policies of modern democratic states. In 1957, Samuel Phillips Huntington, a renowned American political scientist, in his…

Connecting two odd worlds, the supranational phenomenon of globalisation is most vehemently manifested in the sphere of global economic integration. The hyper-globalists opine that this revolutionary phenomenon has engaged all…

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) refers to the distinct tradecraft through which bits of information scattered across public sources such as the World Wide Web, social media networks, and publications etc….

Pakistan has remained at the forefront of the global war on terrorism for decades now. The country has played an instrumental role in uprooting top leadership of Al-Qaeda and in…

On 3 January, the United States assassinated senior Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani, in Iraq. For about two decades, he headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s Quds Force, which oversees…

Social media has been weaponised now. This is convincingly put forth by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking in their latest book titled: “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media.” Residing…

Since the erasure of Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)’s special autonomous status on August 5, the region has remained on an indefinite lockdown for nearly five months. The lockdown is…

The Citizenship Amendment Act is one amongst many steps taken by the Indian government to practically consolidate its Hindutva agenda. Immediate fall-outs of the amendment, however, are proving to be…