NEWS

Pakistan launched first-ever National Security Policy based on a citizen-centric framework and focusing more on boosting the country’s flagging economy

ABOUT

• Span 2022-26
• 100-page policy document
• Put out elaborate plans to open trade and business ties with India.
• Kashmir issue with India has been identified as a ‘vital national policy’ issue for Pakistan.
• No public discussion
• Pakistan is not seeking hostility with India for the next 100 years.
• Deals with the issue of militant and dissident groups and advocates dialogue with ‘reconcilable elements.’
• No prospects of rapprochement with India under the current government.
• On the internal front, the new policy identifies five key areas of population/migration, health, climate and water, food security and gender mainstreaming