‘National Action Plan to counter terrorism not fully implemented’
June 25, 2021
LAHORE: The National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism has not been fully implemented due to various reasons, including lack of civilian ownership of the plan for its execution, confusion on the definition of terrorism and absence of a national narrative on terrorism.
However, the successful Karachi operation and merger of the Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (Fata) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were important achievements under the plan.
This was the crux of deliberations at a ceremony organised by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), a German political foundation Pakistan and Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad based think-tank here Thursday to launch two reports - “Defining terrorism in Pakistan” and “Assessing the National Action Plan to counter terrorism and defining terrorism in Pakistan”. The speakers stressed the need to have a clear definition of terrorism and to execute the NAP in letter and spirit with its ownership by the government to eliminate terrorism from our country. They said 14 committees were formed to work on the NAP but only two of them became functional.