ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday appointed Dr Moeed Yusuf asthe special assistant to the PM on national security division and strategicpolicy planning.
A notification has also been issued in this regard by the Cabinet Division.His post will be equivalent to a state minister.
On September 26, Dr Moeed Yusuf was appointed as Strategic Policy PlanningCell (SPPC) chairman under the National Security Division (NSD).
The purpose of the cell was to assist the government through research onnational issues and draft policy recommendations to meet challenges beingfaced by the country.
Dr Moeed Yusuf holds a Masters degree in International Relations and did aPh.D. in Political Science from Boston University.
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He has served as the Associate Vice-President at the United StatesInstitute of Peace (USIP). He has been engaged with USIP since 2010.
Before joining USIP, he was a research fellow at the Frederick S PadreeCentre for the study of the longer-range future at the Padree School ofGlobal Studies at Boston University’s Political Science Department.
