ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior, Rana Sanaullah Khan has said that NACTA has now become a fully functional organization which is encouraging and shows our commitment towards countering the terrorism.
While chairing the NACTA’s 4th Board of Governors’ meeting here in Islamabad on Monday, he said that the NACTA has been re-vamped, recognized and was playing its statutory coordination role more effectively.
Rana Sanaullah explained that the NACTA was not an operational organization according to the NACTA Act 2013. It makes policies and strategies which are implemented by the provincial CTDs and other relevant stakeholders.
Earlier, the National Coordinator NACTA, IGP Muhammad Tahir Rai (Hilal-i-Shujaat & Sitara-i-Imtiaz) warmly welcomed Chairman and Members of the Board. Mr. Rai expressed his pleasure by mentioning that the Minister was the only Chairman of the Board who has consecutively chaired two BoG meetings of NACTA, and ensured the statutory requirement of holding it once in a year. It shows interest of Government in running affairs of the NACTA.
Mr. Tahir Rai, informed the Board that revamping of the NACTA has been undertaken in the light of the decision of the Board in its last meeting, and that professional staff, including Analysts, Data Scientists, Technical Officers, Linguists, etc. have been recruited.
Specialist Consultants have been hired in fields of Intelligence Analytics, Counter Terrorism Capacity Building and Communication Strategy Implementation to achieve optimum performance levels.
