Dr Moeed Yusuf appointed special assistant to PM on national security

[Basel]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday appointed Dr Moeed Yusuf as the special assistant to the prime minister on national security division and strategic policy planning, a notification issued by the Cabinet Division said.

He will hold the status of minister of state, according to the notification.

Yusuf was formerly the associate vice president of the Asia centre at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC.

In September, he was appointed as the chairperson of the Strategic Policy Planning Cell (SPPC), which functions under the Pakistani government's National Security Division.

The author of Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia, Yusuf has taught at Boston University, George Washington University, and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He is also a columnist for daily Dawn.

Yusuf holds a Masters in international relations and a PhD in political science from Boston University.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Yusuf before joining the USIP was a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Centre at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Centre at Harvard Kennedy School.

He has also worked at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.

In 2007, Yusuf co-founded Strategic and Economic Policy Research, a private sector consultancy firm in Pakistan.

He has also consulted for the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and the Stockholm Policy Research Institute, among others.

Between 2004 and 2007, Yusuf was a full-time consultant with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad, according to his profile.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1524136/d...-special-assistant-to-pm-on-national-security

A very interesting development, makes Moeed our de facto NSA.

He seems anti military in his stance on Pakistan and not good choice.

 

[Armchair]

I don't know this guy but a guy who talks about peace is not the right guy.
IK made this blunder this year and admitted it. We are doing a Neville Chamberlain to Modis Hitler.

What we need right now are people who can strategically plan the coming war. I can't believe IK is doing the same damn mistake he admitted himself making.
More appeasement to India.

This is the time to beef up weapons, buy tanks, artillery, get the nation on a war footing, even limited conscription. We need time to gear up even if war is 5-10 years away.

 

[Khanate]

He seems anti military in his stance on Pakistan and not good choice.

Different horses for courses. The finish line is all the same.

 

[El Sidd]

Will the PM statements that Pakistanis calling for jihad are enemies of Kashmiris be now translated as terrorism?

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Reeks of your ignorance.

you are right
because if he reads his articles and watches programs where he is a guest then he wont hold such view.
this chap is very pragmatic and balanced person. he doest talk at Pakistan like Hussain Haqqani, instead he at least takes an independent view while explaining the challenges of US Pakistan relations. I am yet to come across anything he has written or said that is anti Pakistan.

 

[Xestan]

seems like you dumb and have no clue, just throwing your arrow in dark without aiming ... I won't reply to your nonsense troll to waste my time unless you have any logical reasoning to out source me..

Yeah, anyone who reads this can understand who's the dumb here, claiming something which no mainstream media has reported, then refusing to share the source, and then asking the other person to provide a source to disapprove your claim. lol. You need a psychiatrist. I wonder how they let mental patients make accounts on PDF now.

 

[xyx007]

Yeah, anyone who reads this can understand who's the dumb here, claiming something which no mainstream media has reported, then refusing to share the source, and then asking the other person to provide a source to disapprove your claim. lol. You need a psychiatrist. I wonder how they let mental patients make accounts on PDF now.

I see you why you asking a mainstream media reference and who they playing under when they reporting any news, try to read some books and better get connection inside with real people who can feed you, otherwise these mainstream media control you like a puppet as you are right now and one day end up with the psychiatrist. how come mental patients like you who are under control by sold-out media become a member in pdf and spreading our enemy propaganda here with your nonsense troll which has no clue what so ever about anything, just trying some unproductive responses. try to counter some Indian narrative and defend our country. if you are Pakistani then you know how our agencies work but if you are non pakistani then offcourse your source is mainstream media and then I don't blame you.

 

[Xestan]

I see you why you asking a mainstream media reference and who they playing under when they reporting any news, try to read some books and better get connection inside with real people who can feed you, otherwise these mainstream media control you like a puppet as you are right now and one day end up with the psychiatrist. how come mental patients like you who are under control by sold-out media become a member in pdf and spreading our enemy propaganda here with your nonsense troll which has no clue what so ever about anything, just trying some unproductive responses. try to counter some Indian narrative and defend our country. if you are Pakistani then you know how our agencies work but if you are non pakistani then offcourse your source is mainstream media and then I don't blame you.

So, in short, that malicious claim is a result of your imagination. Good job!

 

[xyx007]

So, in short, that malicious claim is a result of your imagination. Good job!

you and your imagination and see everybody from this tunnel, again another claim from you, nice job ...where you getting all this bizarre stuff in your mind. if you don't agree then move on man ....be productive and serve the nation.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Be respectful and try to learn some etiquettes to hear other's views.

Mansoor Ahmed of Harvard’s Belfer Center is a much better choice than this Dawn columnist. A poor decision by PTI and one doesn’t need to be a “Patwari” to say so.

Pro's and cons related to this appointment?

 

[AmschelHonestvig]

Pro's and cons related to this appointment?

All of these bureaucrats were in Mush time - they scuppered his moves on LOC as permanent border, Mush was very Pragmatic leader, moved fast like lighting but in charge of thick elepahnt and cow like like country people, who work against their own interest...

Each advisor has own saviour complex, but with each new person give them time.(although in ths situation there isnt much)-

If Israelis had listened to Dayan's stonewalling in 60/70s, the country would have been obliterated and instead took the offensive,a and ended up with mre land for peace to bargain away, pakistan has missed this chance.

Send these advosors on permannet posting to the front line see how it world to sharpen pencils there;
not need people institutionalised to harvard or oxford if they want reality on situation, like house cats.

PAKSITANIANS OPTIONS ARE LMITED:

1. Diplomatic : Recognise LOC as Hard Border, Recognition of AJK/ Ladakh-JK (Involve Trump win-win-win)
2. Military : Pre-emptive Invasion of IOJK | Offensive: Unsustainable/Agressor; Defensive would loose AJK
3. Economic : #Brexit style approach to Kashmir| works better within a Hard border context, less so in a warzone

Protests by Indian Union paid shills waving indian Union flags but claiming they against the Govt,
is a masterstoke of mukhti bahini proportions of devious diversion away to conceal intention impending attack on AJK.

The best option is #1 followed by #3 ; the #2 would put Pak troops at the mercy of IOJK Kashmir population,
who previously had pak commandos killed instead of uprising, the Pak troops have no real support within Indian Union, and would be encircled and squatted miore humiliating than Bangladesh

- it much as hurts to write and accept this this but thats the treacharous nature of IOJK Kashmiri Majority % population ... they are the most patriotic Indian Union Nationalists you wil ever meet...test this...(unless they are ethnic pashtun/outsider west of the indus)

Since Moody has hitler like reputation, (Amit Shah is the real behind the scenes PM who calls the shots),
Moody would be looking to wash it off - an international deal with IK on LOC to hard border would sort this, with US as guarantor or witness, and full removal of Indian Union Troops from Western border.

Once the Hard Border is sorted, this will close Moody narative of foerign intereference, in Kashmir.
He will need a new hobby horse which wghich will eventually lead to his own self destruction -plus there are lots of other movements within Indian Union who seek to untie and go it alone regardless of Kashmir.

Kashmir and Pakistan Issues are his Fire-Exit, from his own problems like demonitisaion/

So this would give Pak better standing as a peactime neighbour to speak up for the rights of Abrhamic minorities within Indian Union, since the Indian Union through CAA has declared itself as the international Guarantor of Hindus (Vedic/Dharmic Faiths belief-systems).

Tamil, Goa, Bengal, Khalsa, Marastra, Telagu, Dravidia, so many but to name a few,

This is the diplomatic formula, Mush time he was ahead of his time - this Oxbridge/Aitchison rabble will only buy time for Moody to sharpen his blunt mistaken moves into more precision surgical operations.