Insights

Jan

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Terrorism

Whither Pakistan

Cicero spoke of the guaranteed privileges and rights that were observed and protected by the Roman government for those who understood their obligations as citizens of the Empire.

Jan

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Governance, Terrorism

Within days of this hideous usage of the Holy Qu’ran, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan sent a video of one of their children to the US media, reportedly Maulana Radio’s own son, to explain that this was the first of many more attacks to come against children and schools.

Jan

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Judiciary

The Fallout Around Military Courts

We saw six terrorists, out of 3,000, executed after eight years of sitting in our prisons before the process screeched to a halt with cries from human rights organizations, the European Union and the retired judges in Pakistan decrying the brutality of executions.

Jan

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Terrorism, United States

Good vs. Evil: Where Does America Stand?

Remembering the international outcry over the pictures that were leaked from Abu Ghraib and Bagram, the US intelligence services knew the powder keg that they were hiding from the world. They knew what they had done were crimes against humanity and no amount of verbal discourse would make this acceptable, tolerable or forgivable.

Dec

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Briefing Papers, Geopolitics, Pakistan

Balkanizing Pakistan

First, for years now, I have been talking about the Balkanization of Pakistan, while most people have laughed at me for saying it. Let me paint the picture for you as it stands today.

Dec

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Cognitive Warfare, Information Warfare

Winning The Information War

When you talk to the common man, you find that everyone has a different opinion about the past decade of war, each one being a variation of something they have heard on one of the nightly news talk shows or in a newspaper.

Dec

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Governance

How To Make Your Vote Count

There has never been an election in Pakistan that has not included rigging at some level. It’s a fact that every Pakistani has come to accept and begrudgingly tolerate, knowing that they are unable to change the system that elects their “representatives” to the corridors of power.

Dec

By Syed Khalid Muhammad Pakistan, Terrorism

This Was Not Revenge, This Was Murder Without Mercy

The ‪‎Peshawar attack is another brutal example of the heinous criminals that infest our nation. As the death count rises, we are counting the bodies of dead children. Dead children, for God’s sake.

Nov

By Syed Khalid Muhammad India, Intelligence

The Intelligence Breakdowns Behind the Mumbai Attacks

The article published by Sebastian Rotella from ProPublica is nothing more than a breakdown of the massive intelligence failure prior to Mumbai in 2008. What Rotella presents is nothing more than an attempt to draw connections based on information gathered from various media outlets, unnamed sources in the US intelligence community, and the interrogation/testimony of David Coleman Headley to connect him directly with the ISI in the Mumbai attack and another attack planned for Denmark against the newspaper that published the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Whither Pakistan

Pakistan’s Watershed Moment