India, Jan. 25 -- Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Ministry of Defence are spearheading an ambitious, multi-billion-dollar digital transformation aimed at hardening national security infrastructure and automating counter-terrorism and internal security functions. A review of recent government tender documents, including the National Computer Emergency Response Team (NCERT) "Digital Forensic" project and the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) 2026 IT framework, points to a strong pivot toward indigenous cybersecurity standards to reshape the country's intelligence and surveillance landscape.

The shift marks a departure from Pakistan's historically human-intelligence centric model. Intelligence assessments fro...