Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology capable of performing complex tasks that were traditionally performed only by humans, such as problem-solving, reasoning and decision-making. Machine learning, a subset of AI,…
The recent spate of terrorist attacks across the country has brought into question the National Action Plan (NAP) and the need for military courts. After being lulled into a false…
Numbers, like words, tell stories. In recent years, the stories told by the numbers of Pakistan have mostly been sad ones that have largely to do with death. Collectively, they…
"Terrorist trade and experience are passed on from Western masters to their new Muslim recruits. The Mujahideen, Al-Qaida, ISIS - on closer examination, their tactics of intimidation and terrorisation are…
Point six of the National Action Plan calls for the state to choke terrorism financing. Choking funds is not possible without understanding the processes of fundraising, transfers and utilisation of…
On this Independence Day, the nation must unite and force the rulers for crack down on tax evaders. Our rulers and tax officials, corrupt and inefficient, go after small fry…
FINALLY, Pakistan has declared its own ‘war on terrorism’. The North Waziristan operation, the prime minister’s pronouncements and the adoption of the Protection of Pakistan Bill by the National Assembly…
Although more than six months have elapsed since the new government came to power, neither the federal nor provincial policymakers have been able to formulate a clear strategy on combating…
The ghastly and cowardly attack of September 15, 2013 by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Major General Sanaullah Khan, Lieutenant Colonel Tauseef Ahmad and Sepoy Irfan Sattar, has once again exposed hollowness…
There is a fundamental difference between political activism, militancy and terrorism. When political activism reaches a point of frustration, with street power using weapons to enforce political will, violent protests…
