Malik has won the Syracuse University  Mirror Award for 2012; The S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University confers the Mirror Awards annually to honor excellence in reporting on the media industry.  He is currently working as a “Freelance Correspondent” to multiple international media oulets including Al Jazeera, Gulf News, Deutsche Welle (DW), Free Speech Radio News (FSRN), The Diplomat, Asia Calling Radio, The Foreigner, iMediaEthics and some others.Malik has been reporting on the Terrorism, Democracy, Security and Defense, Society and Culture, International Development, Conflict Resolution, Human Rights and Peace building issues from Pakistan for the last one decade to international media.He is also a senior analyst on the various developing news from Pakistan and across the region in South Asia. He is an expert on Taliban's and al-Qaeda, South Asian security & defense and strategic studies.