Abstract
National security Vs. Political images in Pakistan are always in search of common ground. Military forces and civilian leadership in Pakistan struggle to find the right balance and the civilian leadership has hardly commanded the gun. Therefore, to find out to what extent the national security image influence more as compared to the national political image, this quantitative content analysis research identified the issue-specific frames of the military operation Zarb-e-Azb, measured their presence in editorials of three Pakistani English newspapers, Dawn, The Nation, and The News from June 2014 to June 2016. The results of the study revealed that the slant, style, themes used in the editorials of the selected newspapers almost remained the same, appreciating the military institutions positively, whereas condemning the civilian leadership. The study revealed that the media supported the national security image more as compared to the political image in the view of Operation Zarb-e-Azb (OZA) in the war against terrorism. The civil-military relationship was negatively framed by the Pakistani press under the context of the Zarb-e-Azb Operation.
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