Afzal Khan

Afzal Khan is a political and terrorism analyst of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. After many years as a Writer-Editor with the former U.S. Information Agency and as a Terrorism Editor for London-based Jane's Information Group, he is now a contractual writer for the U.S. State Department specializing in the Middle East and South Asia region.

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Baitullah Mehsud: Scapegoat or Perpetrator in Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination?

03.07.2008 Afzal Khan

Baitullah Mehsud, chief of Pakistan’s Tehrek-e-Taliban (Movement of the Taliban), was declared a “proclaimed offender” on March 1 with a warrant of arrest issued for...

Publication Terrorism Monitor South Asia

Osama bin Laden: Cornered in Kunar or Nuristan?

07.13.2005 Afzal Khan

The whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and U.S efforts to capture and kill him have made many media headlines over the years, resulting in some...

Publication Terrorism Focus Middle East

Pakistan’s Hunt for Al-Qaeda in South Waziristan

05.19.2005 Afzal Khan

Pakistan’s month long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorists, believed to be sheltered by a sub-clan of the powerful Wazir tribe that inhabits the area along Afghanistan’s...

Publication Terrorism Monitor South Asia

The War on Terror and the Politics of Violence In Pakistan

05.13.2005 Afzal Khan

Violence in Pakistan has gone through all conceivable phases before becoming pinned to the broader concept of global terrorism inspired by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda...

Publication Terrorism Monitor South Asia