Safia Mansoor
Safia Mansoor is a Research Associate at the Maritime Centre of Excellence, Pakistan Navy War College. She is also a PhD scholar of International Relations at the School of Integrated Social Sciences, University of Lahore. She has done an MPhil in International Relations from Kinnaird College with a gold medal in the faculty of Social Sciences. She has a number of publications (journal articles and short academic articles) published nationally and internationally. Her areas of interest include Defence and strategic studies, ethnicity and nationalism and maritime affairs.
Items by Safia Mansoor
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- November 14, 2024 Safia Mansoor
Cyber-kinetic warfare: Exploding pagers and strategic lessons for Pakistan
The pager explosions in Lebanon on 17-18 September were the real-life manifestation of Bruce Williams’s movie Live Free or Die Hard, wherein the key antagonist employs cyber-attacks to wreak severe physical harm and deaths. Cyber-kinetic warfare, which was once a fictional construct, has now emerged as one of the...