He writes for the Sunday Times, a Colombo newspaper, and Jain Weekly. In a weekly column on defence and security-related matters in the Sunday Times, called Situation Report, Iqbal Athas has been investigating and reporting on corruption in the top echelons of the security forces, particularly the Air Force. He has also been critical in his writing of some of the military actions undertaken in the ongoing conflict between the security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).