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Asad ullah Khan


Research Fellow

Areas of Research:

China-Pakistan relations, national security, and counter-terrorism

Asad Ullah Khan is a Research Fellow at the China Pakistan Study Center at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI). His area of research includes China-Pakistan relations, national security, and counter-terrorism. He has represented Pakistan at various national and international forums on these subjects. Mr. Khan is the author of numerous research articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces in reputed journals, books, and magazines in the domain of countering violent extremism (CVE). Previously, he was a Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS) in Islamabad for more than three years and rejoined ISSI in June 2024. Recently, he published his work in a book launched by the International Center for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague, Netherlands.

Mail asadkhan@issi.org.pk

Issue Brief on “Kashmir Finds A Voice at UNSC Once Again”

For the second time during past six months, United Nations Security Council deliberated on the Kashmir issue at its forum. The recent meeting was held on...

Pakistan Under Siege, Afzal, Madiha. Penguin India Press: 2018, 192.

The author, Madiha Afzal, a US-based scholar, explains the structural roots of extremism in Pakistan by focusing on the dimensions law, education and Islamism....

Issue Brief on “Pakistan & FATF: Meeting the Challenge”

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), after a five days meeting in Paris on October 15, 2019, retained its earlier decision to keep Pakistan...

Issue Brief on “BLA’s Designation: A Sign of Improving Pak-US Relations”

In a recent move by United States in July 2019, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has been listed as Specially Designated Global Terrorist Group...

Issue Brief on “FATF’s Aggressive Campaign Against Pakistan”

Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the regime to control terror financing and money laundering has put Pakistan on its 'grey list' since June 2018...

Countering Terrorism. Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree. Washington D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2017, 288.

The two prominent scholars in the field of terrorism studies, Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree have tried to argue in their book Countering Terrorism...

Issue Brief on “National Action Plan: Achievements and Limitations”

Pakistan has experienced the wave of terrorism for around two decades for which the nation has borne a huge cost in both human and...

Issue Brief on “Need For Reforming the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 (ATA)”

The Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 (ATA) is the primary substantive law that governs counter-terrorism measures by Pakistan. The legislative intent underpinning the ATA was to...

Issue Brief on “FATF Grey List: Time for Pakistan to Take Bold Steps”

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) formally placed Pakistan on the grey list due to ‘strategic deficiencies’ in its anti-money laundering and terrorism financing...

Issue Brief on “National Action Plan: A Road to Peaceful Pakistan”

In the wake of the US war on terror, Pakistan has borne the brunt of terrorists attacks that have killed more than 70,000 people...