Ejaz Haider is a Senior Resident Fellow at the Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR) in Lahore, Pakistan. He has over three decades of experience in journalism and policy analysis, having served as News Editor at The Friday Times and Executive Editor at Daily Times and Indus News. A Ford Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., he has contributed to leading publications including The Washington Post, The Hindu, and Jane’s Sentinel. He has also hosted acclaimed policy talk shows on Dawn News, Samaa TV, and Capital TV. His work focuses on defence and foreign policy, nuclear strategy, international relations, and statecraft.