Musa Khan Jalalzai

In the UK, every year, the fluctuation of our security threat level become questionable when new jihadist networks are introduced to communities here. These security threat levels remain irksome as we have been unable to tackle the threat of radicalisation and extremism. They are sometimes high, sometimes potential and sometimes severe, but no permanent solution […]

The recent reports and official warnings by the UK government about the intensifying threat of cyber terrorism in the print and electronic media prompted torment and cheerlessness in investment and business firms across the country. Cyber security organisations are desperately seeking ways to counter it effectively while private business firms are looking towards the most […]

The threat of nuclear terrorism in South Asia has resumed a greater profile as India and Pakistan continue to maintain a large number of nuclear facilities. The recent hostile attitude of Mr Modi’s government towards Pakistan once again put the process of peace and stability in the region at a spike. India has developed various […]

During the last 16 years, Pakistan and India have doubled the number of their nuclear warheads, making them the fastest growing nuclear weapons states in the world. However, India has deployed a nuclear triad of bombers, missiles and a submarine capable of firing nuclear weapons. Pakistan has also developed a network of nuclear weapons factories, […]

There are numerous heartbreaking and shameless stories about corruption, bacha bazi (child sexual abuse) and political/sectarian affiliations of the Afghan police force, which have deeply affected the efforts of peace and stability in Afghanistan. The Afghan president, police officers and military commanders have long been opposing the tactics of the Afghan Special Forces, which have […]

The failure of Inter-Services Intelligence to intercept consecutive terror attacks on Pakistan’s military installations, and its intransigence against maintaining professional intelligence cooperation with civilian intelligence agencies, or even considering Intelligence Bureau as an older civilian brother during the last four decades, forced Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to restructure the IB and make it more effective […]

The intelligence community of Pakistan faces numerous challenges, including a widespread lack of civilian support, confidence, sectarian affiliations, the war in Waziristan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan. The greatest challenge that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces is on the national security front. In most parts of the country, intelligence information collection faces […]

The professionalisation of intelligence cooperation, or at least efforts leading in that direction, became increasingly necessary when the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Afghan Taliban extended their terrorist networks beyond their spheres of influence. Heightened, sustained vigilance and a coherent approach to a professional intelligence mechanism are considered central to countering their way of misgovernment. Worse […]

It is no secret that the US, NATO and Afghan intelligence agencies do not always get things right, and their analysis leads policy makers and military commanders to wrong conclusions. Their poor data, inaccurate intelligence information about Taliban activities, their sources of low quality information and their misinterpretations and flawed strategies often cause civilian casualties […]

In February 2014, the killing of 21 Afghan soldiers in Kunar province triggered the anger of an Afghan National Army (ANA) general who never expected the ethnicisation of Afghan military intelligence, which spies on ethnic Pashtun generals, officers, soldiers and their families, in and outside military barracks. In 2013, the Afghan defence ministry once warned […]