by Umar Sheraz
Introduction
The first thing which you notice in the room is the number of “wrist watch” participants in the room ( it’s been a long time since I have seen a group of young men wear wrist watches). But this has to do both with punctuality as well as the banning of mobile phones (during duty) by the air force. Military establishments around the world are struggling to find a way to monitor and prevent their acting soldiers from “becoming broadcast stations” (Be’er, 2013). For the Pakistan military, the challenge is multifold; it has external enemies as well as an increasingly hardened foe in the shape of terrorism, which is hitting Pakistan hard. As a security precaution, the Pakistan Air force has responded by banning all forms of social media like Facebook (at the time of writing, YouTube is banned in Pakistan).(continue…)