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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 “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...

Issue Brief on “Is NAP Really Working?”

It is now more than one and half decade that Pakistan is fighting the problem of violent extremism and terrorism which cost the country...

Public Talk on “Pakistan-Romanian Relations”

The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) organised a Public Talk on “Pakistan-Romanian Relations” under its Ambassadors Platform series on August 3, 2016. The...

Emerging Counter-Extremism Strategy

Abstract: There is a considerable concern among stakeholders and civil society at large at the rise of violent radicalization and associated acts of terrorism. The...

Elisabeth Kendall and Ewan Stein, Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action. (London:...

Elisabeth Kendall and Ewan Stein, Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action. (London: I.B. Tauris and Company, 2015), 358. Asad Ullah Khan The book Twenty-First Century...

Issue Brief on “Counter-Terrorism Instruments”

In the aftermath of the Karachi Airport attack on June 8, 2014, which resulted in the loss of the lives of 28 people including...

Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012. Vahid Brown and Don Rassler. London: Hurst...

Vahid Brown is a specialist in the history of Islamist militancy and the author of Cracks in the Foundation: Leadership Schisms in Al-Qaida, 1989-2006....

Public Talk on “Climate Change and International Security” (Press Release)

The Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad organized a Public Talk today on “Climate Change and International Security” at its premises, on Monday, November 2,...