Abstract
This study is mainly designed to explore the attitude-change among journalists towards national security after being embedded with armed forces. While conducting interviews of journalists, researchers found that embedding with military troops was an effective tool to report on Taliban conflict, which was otherwise inaccessible to media people. The Pakistani reporters, in this regard, are highly sensitive about national security and would not allow their profession tinkering with it. They believed that as Pakistan was fighting this war for maintaining its territorial sovereignty, they needed to be patriotic, nationalist and work side by side with armed forces. Media should be free and realistic, but in state of war, media should cooperate in terms of national security cause. They considered Taliban as enemy of the State, who challenged the national sovereignty of the country, whereas, they believed in glorifying the security forces of the country, specifically in war against terror.