Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2019-09-24

Strengthening of the Operational Affairs of National Security

- Consequent to the series of terrorist attacks by the religious extremists on the 21st of April, 2019, the necessity of further strengthening the existing institutional structure to ensure security operations strictly to meet the challenges posed to national security has been identified. Accordingly, the proposal made by H.E. the President to instruct the Legal Draftsman to draft legislation, to establish the National Security Council, instituted in 1999 under the Public Security Ordinance and the newly proposed National Security Advisory Committee, the National Security Council Secretariat and the Experts Committees on National Security (Economic, International Affairs, Social and Religious, Research and Analysis, Scientific and Technological and Strategic Management) to be established by an Act of Parliament, was approved by the Cabinet.