Prime Minister Imran Khan presides over a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Photo courtesy Ministry of IT Twitter
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the National Cyber Security Policy 2021 that allows establishment of a national cyber security response framework as the government constituted the Cyber Governance Policy Committee to implement the policy.
As per the policy, a cyberattack on any institution of Pakistan will be considered an act of aggression against national sovereignty and all necessary and retaliatory steps would be taken. The committee will implement the policy at the national level, determine a strategy in a timely manner and take timely action. The committee comprises the secretaries and senior officers of 13 different departments/organisations.
With the withdrawal from Afghanistan, are we indeed ending perpetual war? William M. Arkin 1 hour ago The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) steams in the Indian Ocean, Jan. 6, 2021. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Drace Wilson/Navy) With the Biden administration’s promise to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, one might think that America’s endless wars are finally starting to come to an end. And yet nothing could be further from the truth. That is because over two decades of fighting, perpetual war has literally become a worldwide network a juggernaut that is so streamlined, so invisible, and so seemingly cost free, especially in continued American military lives, that it is both highly resilient and hard to grasp. And so it continues on and will continue even after the last “troops” are withdrawn from the country, a part of the global wallpaper that is little ubiquitous but little understood.
President Buhari, who gave the order Thursday at the virtual Commissioning Ceremony of the NIS Technology Building in Abuja, also directed the NIS to “ensure that criminal elements don’t find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and perpetrate their criminality.’’
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday in Abuja, directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s borders.
He directed the service to ensure that criminals did not find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and perpetrate their criminality.
According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President gave the directive in his speech at the virtual inauguration of the NIS Technology Building.
The statement was titled: ‘President Buhari directs Immigration Service to tighten security around borders, urges security outfits to raise performance’.