Musa Khan Jalalzai is a  journalist, a research scholar and a member of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS). He holds a Master's in English Literature and a Diploma in Geospatial Intelligence from the University of Maryland. With over fifteen years of experience in political research and analysis, he specializes in the affairs of Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Taliban, ISIS, nuclear and biological terrorism, and intelligence analysis. Since 2015, he has written articles and research papers in Global Security Review USA, Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies, Journal of Modern Diplomacy, and the Faultline Journal of the Institute for Conflict Management Studies New Delhi, India.