Azmat Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4625129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Azmat Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Azmat |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7743-4104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why and how do terrorism-sponsoring states weaponise their complicity through controlled confession? The case of Pakistan
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a grassroots civil rights collective, accuses the Pakistan Army of instrumentalizing Islamist militancy in the Pak-Afghan borderlands to extract lucrative “counterterrorism rents” at the catastrophic expense of local populations. To support its claims, PTM mobilises a series of confessions issued by top-ranking military and civilian officials, which acknowledge the state’s longstanding patronage of terrorist ou…
Divine deaths or terrorist slaughter? Contested memoryscapes in post-Army Public School, Pakistan
Following a 2014 terrorist attack in Pakistan that killed 132 schoolchildren, the state renamed 107 public schools to memorialize the victims. However, post-Army Public School memory politics has become deeply contested. Drawing on ethnographic research at a renamed school site and the first-anniversary commemoration, this article examines how the state mobilizes a sacrificial discourse of martyrdom that positions the slain children as soldier-ci…
Islands of Dispossession: Worlding and Counter-Worlding Urban Futures in Karachi
Two islands off Karachi’s coast, historically owned and communally spatialised by the indigenous Mallah (fisher folk) community, have become contested sites of urban restructuring. Having thwarted two previous dispossession attempts, the Mallah now face an intensified threat with the establishment of the Pakistan Island Development Authority (PIDA), an autonomous legal body, to aggressively push forward an ambitious, $50b island city project. Thi…
Extreme Weather Events and Risk Communication Challenges in Central Appalachia: A Qualitative Inquiry
This study inventories and identifies communication challenges faced by emergency management agencies in Central Appalachia as they engage communities in preparation, response and recovery efforts for extreme weather events (EWEs). Drawing on data from nine group discussions and guided by the Social Ecological Model, the analysis discerned an array of barriers to effective risk communication, originating from cultural, organizational, interperson…
Journalism as War: Tracing the Predatory Culture and Economy of the Pak-Afghan Cross-border News Practices
Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Pashtun war journalists, this study explores the cross-border news practices and its underlying economy in Pakistan’s troubled tribal region that straddles the Pak-Afghan border. We argue that the structural remnants, including media, of the British colonialism of the past continue to boost the neo-imperialism of the present. Several studies have examined the war reporting in the Pak-Afghan border space, h…
Pakistani military’s rhetorical construction of an Indigenous civil rights movement
For the last four decades, Pakistan’s northwestern Pashtun tribal areas have been in a constant state of imperialist wars. In reaction to this organized violence, a local civil rights movement, the PTM, emerged in 2014 which powerfully challenged the military’s discursive regime that legitimates these US-led wars. However, the military challenged the movement’s call for justice by launching a concerted discursive drive to construct an enemy image…
Ethno-Territorialized Bodies: Necropolitics in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas and Non-violent Organic Resistance
For the last five decades, a neoliberal war has been raging through Pakistan’s Pashtun Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan. The State of Pakistan has been an active shareholder in this never-ending “war on terror.” The State’s biopolitical and racializing policies continuously reproduce the logics through which the Tribal bodies are conveniently and invisibly subjected to a regime of death and maiming. In an attempt to unsettle the State’s biopoli…
The Department of Defense Issues Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan
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Digital black hole: Undeclared internet policy in Pakistan’s Pashtun periphery
Due to the State’s militarized policies in the war-torn Pashtun areas (ex-FATA) bordering Afghanistan, the Pakistan government’s undeclared internet policy in this region has become an obstacle in the way of both exercising the freedom of expression and the attainment of digital access as a basic human right. This is in line with the colonial legacy of keeping this area a buffer-zone, strategically rendering it an information black hole. But the …
Pakistani military’s rhetorical construction of an Indigenous civil rights movement
For the last four decades, Pakistan’s northwestern Pashtun tribal areas have been in a constant state of imperialist wars. In reaction to this organized violence, a local civil rights movement, the PTM, emerged in 2014 which powerfully challenged the military’s discursive regime that legitimates these US-led wars. However, the military challenged the movement’s call for justice by launching a concerted discursive drive to construct an enemy image…
Ethno-Territorialized Bodies: Necropolitics in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas and Non-violent Organic Resistance
For the last five decades, a neoliberal war has been raging through Pakistan’s Pashtun Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan. The State of Pakistan has been an active shareholder in this never-ending “war on terror.” The State’s biopolitical and racializing policies continuously reproduce the logics through which the Tribal bodies are conveniently and invisibly subjected to a regime of death and maiming. In an attempt to unsettle the State’s biopoli…
The Department of Defense Issues Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Digital black hole: Undeclared internet policy in Pakistan’s Pashtun periphery
Due to the State’s militarized policies in the war-torn Pashtun areas (ex-FATA) bordering Afghanistan, the Pakistan government’s undeclared internet policy in this region has become an obstacle in the way of both exercising the freedom of expression and the attainment of digital access as a basic human right. This is in line with the colonial legacy of keeping this area a buffer-zone, strategically rendering it an information black hole. But the …
Journalism as War: Tracing the Predatory Culture and Economy of the Pak-Afghan Cross-border News Practices
Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Pashtun war journalists, this study explores the cross-border news practices and its underlying economy in Pakistan’s troubled tribal region that straddles the Pak-Afghan border. We argue that the structural remnants, including media, of the British colonialism of the past continue to boost the neo-imperialism of the present. Several studies have examined the war reporting in the Pak-Afghan border space, h…
Digital black hole: Undeclared internet policy in Pakistan’s Pashtun periphery
Due to the State’s militarized policies in the war-torn Pashtun areas (ex-FATA) bordering Afghanistan, the Pakistan government’s undeclared internet policy in this region has become an obstacle in the way of both exercising the freedom of expression and the attainment of digital access as a basic human right. This is in line with the colonial legacy of keeping this area a buffer-zone, strategically rendering it an information black hole. But the …
Journalism as War: Tracing the Predatory Culture and Economy of the Pak-Afghan Cross-border News Practices
Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Pashtun war journalists, this study explores the cross-border news practices and its underlying economy in Pakistan’s troubled tribal region that straddles the Pak-Afghan border. We argue that the structural remnants, including media, of the British colonialism of the past continue to boost the neo-imperialism of the present. Several studies have examined the war reporting in the Pak-Afghan border space, h…
Pakistani military’s rhetorical construction of an Indigenous civil rights movement
For the last four decades, Pakistan’s northwestern Pashtun tribal areas have been in a constant state of imperialist wars. In reaction to this organized violence, a local civil rights movement, the PTM, emerged in 2014 which powerfully challenged the military’s discursive regime that legitimates these US-led wars. However, the military challenged the movement’s call for justice by launching a concerted discursive drive to construct an enemy image…
Ethno-Territorialized Bodies: Necropolitics in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas and Non-violent Organic Resistance
For the last five decades, a neoliberal war has been raging through Pakistan’s Pashtun Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan. The State of Pakistan has been an active shareholder in this never-ending “war on terror.” The State’s biopolitical and racializing policies continuously reproduce the logics through which the Tribal bodies are conveniently and invisibly subjected to a regime of death and maiming. In an attempt to unsettle the State’s biopoli…
The Department of Defense Issues Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Islands of Dispossession: Worlding and Counter-Worlding Urban Futures in Karachi
Two islands off Karachi’s coast, historically owned and communally spatialised by the indigenous Mallah (fisher folk) community, have become contested sites of urban restructuring. Having thwarted two previous dispossession attempts, the Mallah now face an intensified threat with the establishment of the Pakistan Island Development Authority (PIDA), an autonomous legal body, to aggressively push forward an ambitious, $50b island city project. Thi…
Extreme Weather Events and Risk Communication Challenges in Central Appalachia: A Qualitative Inquiry
This study inventories and identifies communication challenges faced by emergency management agencies in Central Appalachia as they engage communities in preparation, response and recovery efforts for extreme weather events (EWEs). Drawing on data from nine group discussions and guided by the Social Ecological Model, the analysis discerned an array of barriers to effective risk communication, originating from cultural, organizational, interperson…
Why and how do terrorism-sponsoring states weaponise their complicity through controlled confession? The case of Pakistan
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a grassroots civil rights collective, accuses the Pakistan Army of instrumentalizing Islamist militancy in the Pak-Afghan borderlands to extract lucrative “counterterrorism rents” at the catastrophic expense of local populations. To support its claims, PTM mobilises a series of confessions issued by top-ranking military and civilian officials, which acknowledge the state’s longstanding patronage of terrorist ou…
Divine deaths or terrorist slaughter? Contested memoryscapes in post-Army Public School, Pakistan
Following a 2014 terrorist attack in Pakistan that killed 132 schoolchildren, the state renamed 107 public schools to memorialize the victims. However, post-Army Public School memory politics has become deeply contested. Drawing on ethnographic research at a renamed school site and the first-anniversary commemoration, this article examines how the state mobilizes a sacrificial discourse of martyrdom that positions the slain children as soldier-ci…
Political science (6 works) · State (computer science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)