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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 “Pakistan and International Assistance for Combating Terrorism”

Pakistan has been facing the challenge of terrorism in various manifestations for more than three decades. The core issue in fighting the menace of...

Pakistan’s Enduring Challenges. Fair, C. Christine., and Watson, Sarah J., eds. University of Pennsylvania...

Pakistan Enduring Challenges, edited by C. Christine Fair and Sarah J. Watson, is an attempt by the foreign researchers to highlight the problems of...

Issue Brief on “Deconstructing Terror Financing in Pakistan”

The US has put forward a motion to have Pakistan placed on a global terrorist financing watch list of the anti- money laundering monitoring...

Issue Brief on “Islamic State in Afghanistan: A Myth or A Reality”

Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan is commonly known as the Khorasan Chapter which declared itself functional in January 2015 and was the first ISIS...

Pakistan’s Strategy of Countering Violent Extremism: Need for Soft Power

Abstract In Pakistan’s context, there is a dire need to evolve a strategy to counter violent extremism. This paper argues that Pakistan, along with hard...

Issue Brief on “On Campus Extremists”

The failed attempt to kill an important MQM leader in Karachi on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, September 2, 2017, attracted much media attention partly...

Issue Brief on “Gains of Radd-ul-Fassad”

Four personnel of the Pakistan Army, including a major, lost their lives while attempting to foil a terrorist attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Upper Dir...

Issue Brief on “Use of Internet and Banned Outfits in Pakistan”

Technology, particularly the growing use of internet is one of the important strategic factor which is now being utilized by terrorists organizations for many...

Boaz Ganor, Global Alert: Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenges to Liberal...

The founder and executive director of Israel's International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Boaz Ganor, offers a contemporary study of modern Islamist terrorism in Global Alert....

Issue Brief on “Law of Jungle Cannot Prevail”

The start of 2017 was not very pleasant for the Pakistani nation as it lost 184 innocent civilian and 57 security forces personnel in...