Mashhood Ahmad is a student of International Relations at the National Defense University, Islamabad, and a researcher at South Asia Times (SAT). His areas of interest include History, Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, and Security Studies. Possessing a decent work ethic, he believes in efficiency and effectiveness, in both academic as well as non-academic research. Moreover, he has a proclivity toward book reading and tends to contribute in gathering, refining, and reproducing available consumable data. He tweets as @MausashiM.