Abdul Basit is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Basit specializes in issues of politics, violence, religious extremism, terrorism and security in South Asia. He has co-authored a book entitled Dynamics of Taliban Insurgency in FATA, published from Pakistan by Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS). In addition, he has written extensively in reputed academic journals such as the Perspectives on Terrorism and mainstream Pakistani English dailies including The News International and Express Tribune. His commentaries have also been published from The National Interest (US), RSIS (Singapore) and East Asia Forum (Australia). Basit regularly appears as terrorism and security experts on a number of TV news channels including BBC, Channel News Asia, Pakistan Television News (PTV) etc. He can be reached at [email protected]

• Countering and Preventing Violent Extremism in Af-Pak
• Non-state violent actors in Af-Pak
• Radicalisation and Islamist militancy

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 16 Issue 02

  21 March, 2024

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 15 Issue 04

  13 September, 2023

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 15 Issue 01

  03 January, 2023

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 04

  12 August, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 04

  13 September, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 03

  02 July, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 04

  10 June, 2020

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 03

  23 April, 2020

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 11 Issue 06

  18 June, 2019

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 11 Issue 04

  17 April, 2019

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 10, Issue 03

  06 March, 2018

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 9, Issue 01

  03 January, 2017

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 9, Issue 01

  03 January, 2017

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 8, Issue 07

  27 July, 2016

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 10

  30 November, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 10

  30 November, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 09

  01 October, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 01

  01 February, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 10

  01 November, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 9

  01 October, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 2

  01 March, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 1

  01 February, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 5

  01 May, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 5

  01 May, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 4

  01 April, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 4

  01 April, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 2

  01 February, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 1

  01 January, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 10

  01 October, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 10

  01 October, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 9

  01 September, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 7

  01 July, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 7

  01 July, 2012

RSIS Commentaries

• Taliban’s Return to Power: Boost for Global Jihadism?

  25 August, 2021

• Pakistan Stock Exchange Attack: New Wave of Ethno-separatist Violence?

  17 July, 2020

• Unclaimed Terrorism: Afghanistan's 'Grey' Attacks

  12 June, 2020

• CO17070 | Growing Russian Involvement in Afghanistan

  17 April, 2017

• CO17068 | Digital Peatland Governance: Surveillance Technology for Haze-Free Region

  13 April, 2017

• CO17011 | The Urban and Educated Jihadists of South Asia

  12 January, 2017

• CO16291 | Trump’s Victory: Future of US-Pakistan Relations

  29 November, 2016

• CO16269 | Mosul Operation: The Endgame for IS?

  01 November, 2016

• CO16248 | India-Pakistan Tensions: Back to the Future in South Asia?

  06 October, 2016

• CO16236 | The Coming Political Crisis in Afghanistan

  26 September, 2016

• CO16210 | IS Threat in South Asia: A Growing Reality

  18 August, 2016

• CO16132 | Iran-Taliban Cooperation: New Dimension in Afghan Conflict?

  01 June, 2016

• CO16124 | Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s Death: Implications of Taliban Chief’s Killing

  25 May, 2016

• CO16084 | The Lahore Attack: Limits of Pakistan’s Counter-terrorism Policy

  14 April, 2016

• CO15162 | Mullah Umar’s Death: Implications of Taliban Leader’s Demise

  03 August, 2015

• CO15124 | Afghan Taliban’s IS Dilemma

  22 May, 2015

• CO15084 | Pakistan & the Yemen War: Perils of Joining the Saudi-led Coalition

  08 April, 2015

• CO14203 | Power Transition in Afghanistan: Challenges Ahead

  16 October, 2014

• CO14114 | Pakistan’s Home-grown Terrorism Threat: War Beyond 2014

  17 June, 2014

• CO13054 | Pakistan's 2013 Elections: A Milestone, but Fragile Democracy

  04 April, 2013

• CO13020 | Pakistan's Year of Transition

  04 February, 2013

• CO12128 | The Endgame in Afghanistan: Pakistan's Perspective and Policy

  16 July, 2012

Op-Eds

• “Tech and Terror: Why Have Drones Not Penetrated the Afghanistan-Pakistan Militant Landscape?” (with Rueben Ananthan Santhana Dass), Global Network on Extremism & Technology, 29 April 2024