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Pakistan to establish National Security Council

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Jan 28, IRNA -- Pakistan cabinet on Wednesday approved the 
formation of National Security Council (NSC), which will be composed 
of top military and civilian leaders. 
The cabinet met in Islamabad Wednesday chaired by Prime Minister 
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and approved the NSC Bill to be tabled in 
the forthcoming session of the Parliament. 
"The bill seeks to establish a National Security Council to serve 
as a forum for consultations on matters of national security including
the sovereignty, integrity, and defense and security of the state, 
crisis management, democracy, governance and inter-provincial 
harmony," a statement said. 
The bill envisages that the president of Pakistan shall be the 
chairman of the Council and its other members will be the prime 
minister, the chairman of the Senate, the speaker of the National 
Assembly, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, chief
ministers of the provinces, the chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff 
Committee and the chiefs of staff of the Pakistan Army, Navy and 
Pakistan Air Force. 
The placing of the draft bill follows an understanding arrived at 
between the government and the alliance of Islamic parties that the 
National Security Council be set up under an act of the Parliament. 
Also in order to meet the international obligations and its 
responsibilities to the WTO, the Pakistani cabinet approved the 
setting up of a Pakistan Intellectual Property Rights Organization, 
(PIPRO) for the overall management of the intellectual property rights
in the country. 
It will integrate the three different intellectual property rights
offices functioning now which have created difficulties in 
implementing the regime because of overlapping responsibilities. 
The PIPRO will be administrated by a Policy Board comprising 
representatives of the concerned ministries, according to the 
statement. 
TK/TSH/AH/210 
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