Imtiaz Gul is the Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies which he founded in December 2007, with the support of Germany’s Heinrich Boell Stiftung. The Center is a research and advocacy outfit, focused primarily on security, radicalization, and governance. He has been contributing to international and national print media; Foreign Policy, USA, Wall Street Journal, The Friday Times (weekly), Islamabad, and Daily Express Tribune, on issues such as militancy, border regions, Afghanistan, and Indo-Pak relations. Besides offering advice as a consultant to foreign diplomatic missions and development sector organizations, Gul regularly appears as an analyst/expert on  Pakistani TV channels as well as the Doha-based Al-Jazeera English/Arabic satellite TV channel for his expertise in areas such as Afghanistan/Tribal Areas/ and the Kashmir militancy.