Musa Khan Jalalzai

Last week, a number of Afghan parliamentarians from the Kunduz province accused the national unity government and its armed forces for supporting terrorist organisations like ISIS and Taliban. They alleged that military commanders were providing arms, financial assistance and sanctuaries to terrorists, and transported their suicide bombers to their destinations. These were some of the […]

It is clear that intelligence and law enforcement in some European Union (EU) member states is characterised by variety, being the product of their specific history and culture. The majority of states still live in the cold war era while awareness about national security, intelligence and law enforcement is limited in these states. Literacy rate […]

In an increasing globalised world, secret agencies have become an evermore-important weapon of the state. The impact of globalisation on intelligence cooperation between Pakistan, India and Afghanistan in the war against terrorism is rendered problematic by divergent conceptions of its nature and contradictory expectations. The recent developments in information technology as well as a new […]

Any intelligent state that wants to prevent its system from decaying needs statecraft, which is comprised on economic power, professional intelligence, a strong military and mature diplomacy. The case is quite different in India where emerging contradictions in the state system and failure of intelligence and internal security strategies generated a countrywide debate in which […]

During the last three decades, there have been tenacious efforts in India to introduce security sector reforms in order to bring intelligence agencies under democratic control, but notwithstanding the last reform proposals of the Naresh Chandra Committee report (2012), democratic governments in the country could not succeed to bell the cat. Since the end of […]

Pakistani and international print and electronic media have been publishing heartbreaking reports on the harassment of journalists by Pakistan state security agencies and militant groups since 9/11. The Taliban, sectarian groups and the ISI are harassing working journalists and have now decided to translate their threat into action. Two years ago, international community ranked Pakistan […]

As we live in an era of the ‘fear market’, where only ignorance drives our thoughts and responses every day, we observe many incidents of auctions in ‘terror markets’ across the globe. These are spreading successfully because we do not do our homework. We have no specific counterterrorism strategies. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the terror […]

The adoption of mobile applications, web-based applications, social media use for intelligence purposes and the worldwide web have changed our traditional way of life and business. We live in an evolving world with an ever-changing situation, trying to stay competitive in dynamic markets. A new revolution of social media in the field of intelligence collection […]

Security, stability and a peaceful environment are fundamental goals of all states in contemporary world affairs. To achieve these goals, the existence of a competent and professional intelligence system is vital. Intelligence analysis, collection and the information process help law enforcement agencies in protecting national security. Like all other law enforcing bodies, the British agencies […]

Intelligence has been defined in many ways. Some define it as the ability to learn about, learn from, understand and interact, but Michael Herman (2011) understands that intelligence is a classified knowledge that support its own state’s information security by advising on and setting standard of defensive, protective security measures. In his recent book, he […]