Pakistan’s National Security Policy

About the NSP:

• In late December 2021, the National Security Committee of Pakistan approved the National Security Policy. It covers a 5-year period between 2022 and 2026.
• This NSP has been in the making for 7 years and is to be a “Comprehensive National Security Framework” to ensure ‘safety, security and dignity of the citizen of Pakistan’.
• It covers economic matters, military matters, water security, foreign policy, demographics and terrorism.
• It has placed ‘economic security’ at the ‘core’, in order to achieve this objective.
• It is also the 1st time such an NSP has been approved in Pakistan.

What is the Army’s role here?

• If this NSP takes off, it would imply that a kind of consensus has been achieved between Pakistan’s elected government and the Army. Similarly, a