ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee (NSC) on Monday approved the National Security Policy that puts profitable stability at the core of comprehensive public security.
Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired a meeting of the NSC, which is the government’s topmost exemplary and decision-making body for coordinating issues pertaining to public security. The session was attended by the civil ministers for foreign affairs, defense, information and broadcasting, interior, finance, and mortal rights, the public security counsel, services chiefs, and elderly officers.
The five-time policy document covering the period 2022-26 is being sported by the government as the first-ever strategy paper of its kind that sets out the state’s public security vision and guidelines for the attainment of those pretensions. It’ll guide the government’s foreign, defense, and profitable programs and decisions- timber.
The five-time policy will guide the government’s foreign, defense, and profitable plans and decision-making.
The document would now be presented before the civil press for blessing in what appears to be a bare formality after the nod by the important NSC.
Although the policy will participate intimately at an after stage, it reportedly seeks to work the symbiotic liaison among mortal security, profitable security and military security with the safety and substance of citizens being at the center of the whole-of-government approach.
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It covers both traditional and non-traditional security challenges, including frugality, food, water, military security, terrorism, population growth, and dealings with the external world, especially major powers.
The document places special emphasis on profitable tactfulness as the focus of Pakistan’s foreign policy aimed at avoiding being smelled into bloc politics in world order under transition.
Prime Minister Khan hailed the medication and blessing of the National Security Policy as a major step. He directed the colorful government agencies to make a coordinated strategy for the effective perpetuation of the policy and asked National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf to submit a yearly report on the progress made towards putting it in practice.
The NSC was briefed on broader silhouettes of the policy that has been prepared by the National Security Division.
Several rounds of feedback consultations on multiple drafts were held with all state institutions, including parochial governments and the governments of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu, and Kashmir. Over 600 academics, judges, civil society members, and scholars across Pakistan have been consulted to make the policy process inclusive.
A draft of the policy was before this month also participated with the Parliamentary Committee on National Security. The meeting was, still, transacted by the opposition parties.
The National Security Policy is anticipated to be a dynamic document that will be reviewed each time and on the transition of government to help keep it abreast with its policy precedences in a fast-changing global terrain. Work on the policy began in 2014.
