PERILS AND PROSPECTS OF NATIONAL INTERNAL SECURITY POLICY AND NATIONAL ACTION PLAN

Abstract

Ten months taking after the Peshawar APS assault in Dec 2014 and the foundation of the National Internal Security Policy (NISP), an All Parties meeting was directed including the top military brass, led by the PM Nawaz proclaimed an expansion of 20 points of National Action Plan (NAP) to counter extremism and terrorism in the country. The recently detailed National Action Plan fundamentally redesigned through a thought-process and set the objectives of the NISP yet displayed 2 new points: the death penalty was forced on the attackers of Army Public School (APS) and other having a terrorists activities and the establishment of Army courts to manage the postponed trials of “jet black” terrorists to curb radicalism and militancy in the state. In view of this scenario, this paper attempts to propose some reflections on what are the policy management challenges in implementation of NISP and NAP? What is the state’s deficiencies of regulatory authorities which plague the effective implementation of National Internal Security Policy (NISP) in Pakistan? What are the perils and prospects of National Action Plan (NAP)? And what are the achievements of National Action Plan (NAP) thus far?