May 16: PILDAT has released its interim monitor on country-wide
progress on the implementation of National Action Plan to counter terrorism
for the period January 2015 – December 2016. The monitor is intended to scientifically
measure the progress on each of the 20 points of NAP in each of the four provinces
and the country as a whole. The Interim Monitor contains the working data for
national and provincial progress. The Monitor has been termed ‘Interim’ as data
on many parameters in this Monitor is incomplete, especially for provinces except
Punjab. PILDAT has, therefore, not made an assessment of the progress on implementation
at this stage and has not assigned the traffic lights (Green, Green-Amber, Amber-Red,
Red) unlike it has done for the Monitor released a day earlier for the Punjab
province.
PILDAT is in the process of collecting data from Provincial
and Federal Governments to make an assessment of the progress achieved on the
implementation of NAP. As far as Punjab is concerned, data received from various
government agencies, including Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab and
FIA Lahore, was used. In addition, data acquired through regular media monitoring
as well as data shared publicly by the Federal Government was also incorporated
in this Interim Monitor.
The progress on NAP has been the subject of much political
debate and PILDAT’s initiative is an attempt to steer it towards a fact-based
discourse.
The Interim Monitor covers the first two years, 2015 and 2016,
since the announcement of NAP on December 24, 2014. It may be noted that PILDAT
has used data in this Interim Monitor that was shared by the Federal Interior
Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in the Senate on March 10, 2017. PILDAT plans
to issue a completed Monitor for the first two years after the data is received
from the provincial and federal governments and thereafter quarterly NAP monitors
will be issued in the future.
The complete text of the interim monitor can be accessed here.