Will Pakistan’s National Security Policy work? | Inside Story

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Pakistan’s Prime Minister has launched the country’s first-ever National Security Policy.

It seeks to shift the focus away from the military to a citizen-centric framework and aims to have economic security as its core.

Imran Khan says Pakistan has been in dire need of a strategy that ensures the protection of its people and guards economic interests.

Opposition parties have criticised the government for not including them in the process.

So how will Imran Khan enforce this policy?

Presenter: Peter Dobbie

Guests:

Shiraz Paracha, defense and strategic analyst.

Rabia Akhtar, Director for security, strategy and policy research at the University of Lahore.

with a contribution from Moeed Yusuf, National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel

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Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It has a population exceeding 212.2 million, including the world’s second-largest Muslim population. It has an area of 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).

Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

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