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The Cabinet Committee on National Security (CCNS or C2NS), (Urdu: کابینہ کمیٹی قومی سلامتی) previously known as the Defence Committee of Cabinet,[1] is the principal federal institution and consultative forum used by the people-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan for concerning matters of state's national security, geopolitical, geostrategic, and foreign policy matters with the Prime minister's chief military advisers, senior government advisers and senior Cabinet ministers.[2]
Since its creation and inception under Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1976, the primary functions under the CCNS's domain is to advise and assist the Prime minister on issues involving the national security, threat of war, nuclear weapons politics, and challenges in geo-strategic and foreign policies. The CCNS serves as the prime minister's principal decision-making and consultative forum for co-ordinating national security and geo-strategic foreign policies among various government institutions and ministries.[3] The CCNS is a counterpart of the national security councils of many other nations.
- ^ "DCC reconstituted as CCNS". The News. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Press Release. "The Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) met today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf". Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Public relations monitoring report. "Performance of the Defence Committee". Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency. Retrieved 2 March 2013.