The National Security Adviser of Pakistan, Dr Moeed Yusuf, held a meetingwith his counterpart of United States of America (USA) in Geneva on Sunday.

Both sides had a positive conversation on a range of bilateral, regionaland global issues of mutual interest and agreed to advance practicalcooperation on these issues.

Last week, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Security DrMoeed Yusuf was appointed as National Security Adviser.

According to the notification issued by the cabinet division, PrimeMinister Imran Khan assigned Dr Moeed the responsibility of NationalSecurity Adviser.

Dr Moeed’s rank will be equivalent to a federal minister. The notificationhas been implemented promptly after the approval of prime minister. He wasappointed as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on NationalSecurity Division and Strategic Policy Planning on December 24, 2019.

In October 2019, he was made chairman of Strategic Policy Planning Cell(SPPC) under the National Security Division (NSD). The cell was formed toassist the government through research and draft policy recommendations onnational issues.

Dr Moeed has done Masters in International Relations and PhD in PoliticalScience from Boston University. He was a research fellow at the Frederick SPadree Centre for the study of the longer range future at the Padree Schoolof Global Studies at Boston University’s Political Science Departmentbefore joining USIP in 2010.