PILDAT Releases Interim monitor on country-wide Progress on National Action Plan (NAP)

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

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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.