Research Assistant
Shah Muhammad is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), Islamabad. He is a Gold Medallist in MPhil Peace and Conflict Studies from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad. His research interests include emerging technologies, national security, defence modernisation and global governance.
Previously, he completed a research fellowship with Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF). Shah Muhammad is also member of a global policy network ‘Future Leaders Connect’ (FLC), jointly hosted by British Council and Cambridge University.
Israel’s protracted assault on Gaza risks morphing into a wider Middle Eastern crisis after Iran launched around 200 ballistic missiles on various sites in Israel. It is being deemed as Iran’s kinetic response to Israeli assassinations of top leadership of
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The ‘blurring of boundaries’ between physical entities and digital models is one of the hallmarks of the Fourth Industrial Revolution driven by advancements in technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics,
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Green innovation is making inroads into the aviation industry, transitioning from traditional fossil fuel engines to innovative hybrid and fully electric models. The DA36 E-Star 2, unveiled at
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‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,’ said J. Robert Oppenheimer after realising that his pivotal role in the making of atomic bomb could be ruination for humanity. In contemporary times, technologically driven Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA) are increasingly displacing human roles in the military,
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The traditional recourse to kinetic combat capabilities may no longer be adequate in a technological era increasingly dominated by non-kinetic modalities of warfare. Information warfare, an emerging mode of hostile engagement, includes actions taken to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy an enemy’s information and its
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In the traditional modes of warfare and intelligence, espionage was an exclusive domain of spies working covertly to gain access to an enemy’s sensitive information. However, greater leaps in technology over the years have raised the significance of cyber domain for intelligence, paving the way for cyber espionage.
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