36-445: (Redirected from National Command Authorities ) National Command Authority may refer to: National Command Authority (Pakistan) National Command Authority (United States) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title National Command Authority . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
72-597: A Development Control Committee, as well as the Strategic Plans Division (SPD) which acts as its secretariat. The SPD is responsible for the management and administration of the country's tactical and strategic nuclear weapons stockpile. It was created the same year as the NCA was formed. Their directives are to be operationalized by a new SPD under the control of a Director-General at the rank of Lieutenant-General ( Air Marshal or Vice-Admiral ) in charge of
108-664: A Strategic Plans Division (SPD). The Prime Minister— Chief Executive (Head of Government) of the country served as its chairman while other members included the high-profile Ministers of Foreign Affairs , Defense ( Military Production ), Economic , Science , and Interior , the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chiefs of the Pakistani Armed Forces , and the Director-General of the SPD. The DCC includes
144-629: A single vote. The Government of Pakistan felt the need to establish an administrative authority after Pakistan's first publicly announced atomic tests , Chagai-I and Chagai-II , in late May 1998 at the Ras Koh weapon-testing labs in the Chagai Hills range of Chagai District , and the Kharan Desert of Balochistan Province . The roots of such mechanism traced back to the 1970s when Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto authorized
180-584: A unified central command system to use nuclear and missile technology as part of the defence and security of nuclear assets under government control. Finally, the command was formally established and given commissioned on February 3, 2000, after approval by Pakistan's National Security Council . The command compromises the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC), the Development Control Committee (DCC), and
216-656: Is chaired by the Prime Minister. In 1994, General Beg retains: " (...).... The NCA determines the state of readiness which has to be maintained at all times... (sic)... and lays down in great detail the policy of how the various components will be placed, protected and safeguarded.". In April 1999, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf developed
252-586: Is the authority responsible for safeguarding the national security of Pakistan through command, control and operational decisions regarding Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme . With Prime Minister of Pakistan being its Chairperson, the NCA maintains and enhances the control and operational effectiveness of Pakistan's nuclear weapons stockpile and serves as a policy institute regarding weapons of mass destruction in Pakistan. Established in 2000 along with its paramilitary unit, Strategic Plans Division Force ,
288-490: Is the ex officio secretary of NCA, with SPD functioning as the NCA’s secretariat The NCA consists of the following nine ex officio members : The DG of the NCA's Strategic Plans Division (SPD) is the ex officio Secretary of the NCA and the SPD functions as the NCA's secretariat. Decision making in the NCA takes place through consensus and, in the event that consensus is not achieved, then through voting, with each member having
324-630: Is usually headed by a major general , air marshal , or rear admiral . The Director General of the ISI is among the most powerful posts in Pakistan. For example, according to Mohammad Sohail, shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange went down in October 2021 over concerns regarding the appointment of the ISI chief. The benchmark KSE-100 index fell 1.51%. According to retired air marshal Shahzad Chaudhry, three to four names are provided by
360-453: The Chief of Army Staff , and the prime minister selects the director general from that list, and the appointed serves for two to three years. Before 2021, the appointment process of the Director-General followed no formal protocol other than verbal discussion between the Prime Minister and the head of the army. Walter Cawthorn was the first head of the ISI. His successor, Syed Shahid Hamid
396-808: The Northern Alliance during the Afghan Civil War in the 1990s. The ISI has strong links with jihadist groups, particularly in Afghanistan and Kashmir . Its special warfare unit is the Covert Action Division . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in their first ever open acknowledgement in 2011 in US Court, said that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) sponsors and oversees
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#1732772474885432-837: The United States and the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom to run Operation Cyclone , a program to train and fund the mujahideen in Afghanistan with support from China , Saudi Arabia , and other Muslim nations . Following the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, the ISI provided strategic support and intelligence to the Taliban against
468-707: The al-Qaeda affiliate Jaish-e-Mohammed ". General Javed Nasir confessed to assisting the besieged Bosnian Muslims, supporting Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang despite a UN arms embargo, rebel Muslim groups in the Philippines, and some religious groups in Central Asia . The National Intelligence Coordination Committee (NICC) of Pakistan is headed by the Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence . The overarching intelligence coordination body
504-506: The atomic bomb project to keep the projects safe from being exploited, politicized, or infiltrated by enemy powers attempting to sabotage them. It is alleged by the former Chief of Army Staff , General Mirza Aslam Beg in 1994, that the Command was established in 1972 by former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto when he authorized the atomic bomb project. The Joint Staff Headquarters (JS HQ) served its combatant operational command and
540-641: The insurgency in Kashmir by arming separatist militant groups. The Inter-Services Intelligence was established in 1948. It was the brainchild of Major General Walter Cawthorn , then Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army, following the First Kashmir War which had exposed weaknesses in intelligence gathering, sharing, and coordination between the army, air force, navy, Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI). The ISI
576-800: The ISI provides support to militant groups, though others think these allegations remain unsubstantiated. The ISI has often been accused of playing a role in major terrorist attacks across India including militancy in Kashmir , the July 2006 Mumbai Train Bombings , the 2001 Indian Parliament attack , the 2006 Varanasi bombings , the August 2007 Hyderabad bombings , and the 2008 Mumbai attacks . The ISI has been accused of supporting Taliban forces and recruiting and training mujahideen to fight in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Based on communication interceptions, US intelligence agencies concluded Pakistan's ISI
612-406: The ISI's professional competence. According to some experts, the ISI is the largest intelligence agency in the world in terms of total staff. While the total number has never been made public, experts estimate around 10,000 officers and staff, which does not include informants or assets. The wings are further divided into various directorates, which are sub-divided into departments, each directorate
648-639: The NCA was a direct successor to the Air Force Strategic Command which was established by the then- Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Anwar Shamim in 1983. The National Command Authority is charged with joint-space operations (such as military satellites ), information operations (such as information warfare ), missile defense , internal and external command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ( C4ISR ), and strategic deterrence , and combating weapons of mass destruction . The National Command Authority oversees
684-577: The NCA's Authority under the Prime Minister’s command. The directives of the NCA are to be operationalised by the: Inter-Services Intelligence The Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ; Urdu : بین الخدماتی استخبارات , romanized : bain-al-xidmātī istixbārāt ) is the largest and best-known component of the Pakistani intelligence community . It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around
720-680: The Prime Minister and the Chief of Army Staff. Relatively unknown outside of Pakistan since its inception, the agency gained global recognition and fame in the 1980s when it backed the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War in the former Democratic Republic of Afghanistan . Over the course of the conflict, the ISI worked in close coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency of
756-671: The SS Directorate was created under the command of Brigadier Mohammed Yousaf to oversee day-to-day operations in Afghanistan. Officers from the ISI's Covert Action Division received training in the United States, and "many covert action experts of the CIA were attached to the ISI to guide it in its operations against Soviet troops by using the Afghan Mujahideen". Many analysts (mainly Indian and American) believe that
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#1732772474885792-587: The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee (as deputy chairman of DCC), the chiefs of the armed forces, the director general of the SPD, and a "representative of the strategic organization and scientific community (science adviser)". Since the 1970s onward, the National Command Authority is responsible for policy formulation and will exercise employment and development control over all strategic nuclear forces and strategic organizations. It consists of an Employment Control Committee and
828-475: The existence of several terrorist camps in Pakistan, with at least one militant admitting to being trained in the country. As part of the ongoing Kashmir conflict , Pakistan is alleged to be backing separatist militias. Many nonpartisan sources believe that officials within Pakistan's military and the ISI sympathise with and aid Islamic terrorists , saying that the "ISI has provided covert but well-documented support to terrorist groups active in Kashmir, including
864-446: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Command_Authority&oldid=1009823986 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Command Authority (Pakistan) The National Command Authority ( NCA )
900-478: The management and administration of the tactical and strategic nuclear forces. As of 2022, the director-general of the SPD is Yusuf Jamal. Since its establishment, Pervez Musharraf, as President of Pakistan , had served its first chairman. However, after the 2008 General Elections , Pakistani lawmakers introduced a new law which was passed unanimously by the Pakistani Parliament . The bill placed
936-407: The means to respond to those threats as quickly as possible to prevent the collateral damage. The civilian Prime Minister is the Chairman of this Command, with all military assets, components of NCA, and strategic commands directly reporting to Chairman of their course of development and deployment. Chairman Joint Chiefs of staff committee , service chiefs, and DG ISI are members of NCA, and DG SPD
972-488: The name "Inter-Services"; the agency also recruits civilians. Since 1971, it has been formally headed by a serving three-star general of the Pakistan Army, who is appointed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan in consultation with the Chief of Army Staff , who recommends three officers for the position. As of 30 September 2024, the ISI is headed by Lt. Gen. Asim Malik . The Director-General reports directly to both
1008-478: The operations of the Pakistani Army , Air Force , and Navy 's Strategic Commands, along with their functional basis. The unified military strategic command structure is intended to give the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Pakistan a unified resource for greater understanding of specific threats (military, nuclear, chemical, biological, radiological, conventional, and non-conventional, and intelligence) and
1044-431: The task less than two years ago." Naval Commander Syed Mohammad Ahsan , who served as Deputy Director Naval Intelligence of Pakistan and helped formulate ISI procedure, undertook and managed the recruitment and expansion of the ISI. After the 1958 coup d'état , all national intelligence agencies were directly controlled by the president and Chief Martial Law Administrator . The maintenance of national security, which
1080-621: The three branches of the Pakistan Armed Forces and paramilitary forces such as ANF , ASF , Pakistan Rangers , Frontier Corps , Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts and Maritime Security Agency as well as civilian officers from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Pakistan Customs , Police , Judiciary and Ministry of Defence make up ISI's general staff. They are recruited on deputations for three to four years and enhance
1116-472: The world that is deemed relevant to Pakistan 's national security . The ISI reports to its director-general and is primarily focused on providing intelligence to the Pakistani government . The ISI primarily consists of serving military officers drawn on secondment from the three service branches of the Pakistan Armed Forces : the Pakistan Army , Pakistan Navy , and Pakistan Air Force , hence
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1152-690: Was assigned the task of building this organization from scratch. Despite significant challenges, such as the lack of experienced personnel and essential records, as well as continued staff shortages, he successfully developed the Directorate into a functional organization. He also gained the trust and cooperation of the Service Intelligence authorities in the United Kingdom. Although much remains to be done, Brigadier Shahid Hamid has achieved far more than seemed possible when he took on
1188-613: Was behind the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on 7 July 2008, a charge that the governments of India and Afghanistan had laid previously. It is believed to be aiding these organisations in eradicating perceived enemies or those opposed to their cause, including India, Russia, China, Israel , the United States , the United Kingdom , and other members of NATO . Satellite imagery from the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggest
1224-528: Was given assent by the Prime Minister of Pakistan in November 2020. It held its inaugural session on 24 June 2021, marking the date the committee became functional. A director-general, who is traditionally a serving lieutenant general in the Pakistan Army, heads the ISI. Three deputy director generals, who are serving two-star military officers, report directly to the director general with each deputy heading three wings respectively: Military officers of
1260-510: Was structured to be operated by officers from the three main military services and to specialize in the collection, analysis, and assessment of external military and non-military intelligence. While Cawthorn established the ISI, it was Syed Shahid Hamid who was tasked with fully setting up the agency. In a confidential report to the Joint Service Commander's Committee, Cawthorn wrote: "In October 1948, Brigadier Shahid Hamid
1296-653: Was the principal function of these agencies, resulted in the consolidation of the Ayub regime. Any criticism of the regime was seen as a threat to national security. On 5 July 1977 through Operation Fair Play , the ISI began collecting intelligence on the Pakistan Communist Party and the Pakistan Peoples Party . The Soviet–Afghan War in the 1980s saw the enhancement of the ISI's covert operations . A special Afghanistan section known as
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