Committee on “Cyber Threats & Challenges” to be formed

Government of PakistanCommittee on “Cyber Threats & Challenges” to be formed

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: In response to President Dr. Arif Alvi’s letter to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister’s Office has directed the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (M/o IT&T) to constitute a high-level committee of experts headed by the Federal Minister for M/o IT&T to analyse the “Cyber Threats and Challenges” to the state institutions and submit its recommendations to Prime Minister’s Office to proceed further in the matter.

In his letter, the president had observed that this communication was in continuation of his constant beseeching the opinion makers, decision-makers, politicians and strategists in Pakistan that “Cyber Power”, being the effective deployment of cyber capabilities by a state to achieve its national objectives”, was an important area where Pakistan needed to work hard and become a significant player.

The president emphasised that it was important for Pakistan to deliberate on how to develop and leverage its policy by adopting a multifactorial holistic national approach to harness the Cyber power with the objective to reduce the national attack surface and attaining effective reaction and defence capabilities against any possible intrusions capable of paralysing all institutions, utilities, defence, business, digital supply chain, finance, public services and information control and communication,

While dilating, the president identified eight strategic areas which needed to be seriously deliberated upon as a national concern to safeguard the country against possible Cyber Threats which include: strengthening and enhancing national cyber defences; controlling and manipulating the Information Environment for disseminating the Country’s point of view in the world and removing extremist material from social media; foreign intelligence collection on national security matters; harnessing national cyber and commercial technologies; destroying or disabling an adversary’s infrastructure in case of attack; defining international and national cyber norms and technical standards; understanding wealth movements in the cyber world, including cryptocurrencies and data breaches and surveilling and monitoring of domestic Groups (Criminal Organizations, Terrorists) through internet traffic and disrupting foreign interferences.



The Committee would submit its recommendations in order to proceed further in the matter at the earliest.

In addition to the letter addressed to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, President Arif Alvi has also forwarded a report to the relevant institutions to provide a base for developing a cogent cyber power strategy in a wholistic manner and to develop necessary human resources to ensure the Ccountry’s brighter future.

Mati
Mati
Mati-Ullah is the Online Editor For DND. He is the real man to handle the team around the Country and get news from them and provide to you instantly.

Must read

Recent News

Kakar visits Wahat Al Karama in Abu Dhabi to pay homage to sacrifices of...

0
ABU DHABI, UAE: The Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar Ul Haq Kakar on Tuesday visited national and cultural landmark Wahat Al Karama in Abu Dhabi...

Caretaker PM Kakar visits Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi

0
ABU DHABI, UAE: The Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar Ul Haq Kakar visited Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.The prime minister commenced...

Interbank Dollar Rate Today in Pakistan – 28 November 2023

0
Interbank Exchange Rates in Pakistan The Interbank Closing Exchange Rate in Pakistan has been issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for November 28,...

Third nationwide polio vaccination campaign 2023 inaugurated

0
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Minister for Health Dr. Nadeem Jan has inaugurated the third nationwide polio vaccination campaign of the year, urging parents and caregivers...

Guilt Ridden Militants and TTP’s Evasion of Civilian Killings

0
By Iftikhar Hussain JazibAl-Qaeda’s attacks on twin towers of World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September 2001 were the deadliest terrorist incident...
Advertisement