Abdul Basit

Abdul Basit is a Senior Associate Fellow at the International Center 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 by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) in Islamabad, Pakistan. In addition, he has written extensively in reputed academic journals such as the Perspectives on Terrorism and mainstream Pakistani English-language daily publications, including The News International and Express Tribune. His commentaries have also been published in The National Interest (U.S.), RSIS (Singapore), and East Asia Forum (Australia). Basit regularly appears as a terrorism and security expert on several news channels, including BBC, Channel News Asia, Pakistan Television News (PTV), and others.