If winning hearts and minds matter in Balochistan than the military and civil establishment are doing everything to loose on that end.

Pakistan need to better prepare their citizens for the demands of a changing information economy, and they need to adjust tax and social protection systems to ease the transition from labor market to information one.

Bands of armed ideological examiners revoking the streets of Pakistan is not the rights answer to the fight against extremism.

Connecting any strategic infrastructure to the internet makes it vulnerable to security threats and most government systems connected in South are extremely vulnerable to hacking, data leakages and hijacking.

The only way to stop big data from becoming big brother is introduce privacy laws that protect the basic human rights online.

Expecting to fix privacy problem by passing few laws will not work as the cancer is much deeper than this in our surveillance society.

Destruction of privacy via surveillance programs engineered by Great Powers widens the existing power imbalance between the ruling elite and everyone else. Its impact on global south will be colossal.

In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue.

No global corruption scandal can be complete without mentioning Pakistani politicians.

It is critical that both North and South work collectively for facing the online challenges in defeating the criminals but we also need to ensure that the internet remains a platform for freedom of expression and uncensored information otherwise, it will have a negative impact on social economic development.