Pakistan National Command Authority holds important session after Trump’s allegations over nukes
Shares
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi presided over on Thursday the 23rd meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA), which was attended by the civil-military top brass, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations.
The meeting was attended by the federal ministers for Defence and Interior, Chairman JSC, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, Chief of Air Staff, Director General Strategic Plans Division, Director General Inter Services Intelligence, Secretary Foreign Affairs and other senior officials.
During the session, the authority was briefed comprehensively on the strategic environment, said the press release.
“The NCA took stock of the regional security environment and in this regard, noted with concern certain destabilising actions in Pakistan’s neighborhood, which undermine the objective of maintaining strategic stability in South Asia. These include the massive arms build-up in the conventional domain, nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean Region and plans for the development/deployment of Ballistic Missile Defence,” mentioned the ISPR statement.
The army’s media cell said that the authority, while expressing full confidence in Pakistan’s capability to address any form of aggression, reiterated ‘Pakistan’s policy of developing and maintaining Full Spectrum Deterrence, in line with the policy of Credible Minimum Deterrence and avoidance of arms race’.
The NCA congratulated the scientists and engineers on their contributions to strengthen the national defence capabilities, the ISPR further said.
The authority appreciated the technological sophistication demonstrated during the tests of Babur III SLCM and Ababeel Missile System, which have ushered a new era in technological sophistication of Pakistan’s strategic capabilities.
The NCA reviewed in detail the nuclear security regime and expressed full confidence in the command and control systems, and security measures in-place for the strategic assets and materials.
