A cybersecurity solution? Malware malfunction
Remember when Trinity removed a bug from Neo’s stomach in the Matrix – what if you had a similar option to get rid of bugs/cyber threats and cyberattack on your…
Pakistan’s cybersecurity regime
THE recent Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules upend, among other fundamental rights, privacy and free speech safeguards ensured by the Constitution. Our current cyber legal landscape forces data subjects…
US domestic spying controversy complicates cybersecurity efforts
The Obama administration's cybersecurity agenda, which includes expanding the military's Cyber Command and beefing up protection for critical infrastructure, faces more intense scrutiny after two vast domestic surveillance programs were…
The real battlefield is intellectual
In the ancient city of Rabat, where the intellectual heritage of the Islamic world resonates in historic libraries and madrasas, the Vice Chancellors’ Forum of Universities in the Islamic World,…
Reform or redundancy?
In 2024–25, Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments announced yet more agencies – under the pretense of reform – ranging from cybersecurity and health to housing and trade. But instead of…
Reform or redundancy?
In 2024–25, Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments announced yet more agencies – under the pretense of reform – ranging from cybersecurity and health to housing and trade. But instead of…
For a cerebral strategy
Pakistan has been confronted with conflict since its inception, even before it became a physical reality. In fact, its birth was an outcome of a raging conflict of ideologies, which…
Quantum Pakistan
When I launched Vision 2010 over two decades ago, I planned to draft a plan and ignite a national imagination around science, technology and innovation. At that time, this seemed…
India’s costly misadventure
There has been a surge in nationalistic fervour among the Indian electorate. Yet, a consideration of the broader consequences suggests that India’s misadventure was a grave strategic miscalculation. The Modi…
India’s alarm over Chinese spying rocks the surveillance industry
Global makers of surveillance gear have clashed with Indian regulators in recent weeks over contentious new security rules that require manufacturers of CCTV cameras to submit hardware, software and source…
