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Asad ullah Khan


Research Fellow

Areas of Research:

Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalization

Mr. Asad Ullah Khan has worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad. He holds an M.Sc in International Relations from National Defence University, Islamabad. He also holds a degree of Certified Accounting Technician from the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, Glasgow U.K. He has previously worked as a research associate at the Centre for Pakistan and Gulf Studies, Islamabad. Mr. Khan is an author of various newspaper articles. He has also co-authored a chapter, with Mr. Rahim Ullah Yousufzai, for a book titled “Militancy in FATA: Cultural and Religious Dimensions”.

Mail asadkhan@issi.org.pk

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...

Issue Brief on “February 13th: A Gloomy Day”

The day of February 13, 2017 ended in a bloodshed as the sun was set with three major incidents of terrorism across the country....

Moazzam Husain, Putting Pakistan Right: Standpoints on the War on Terror, Energy, Transit Corridors...

Putting Pakistan Right by Moazzam Husain is a set of deeply analysed articles which can help policy makers to draft the right policy options...