National Crises Management Cell

The National Crisis Management Cell (Urdu: قومی اختیاریہ برائے تنظیمِ بحرانات‎) (reporting name: NCMC) is primarily a domestic intelligence assessment and management institution / agency , operational under the Ministry of Interior (MoI) , Government of Pakistan.[2][3] The agency secondarily acts as a co-ordinating platform for all the other intelligence agencies in Pakistan. Its other activities involve building efforts towards counter-intelligence, counter-proliferation, and counter-insurgency as well as assisting the government, at all levels of commands, in managing intelligence.[4]

National Crisis Management Cell
قومی اختیاریہ برائے تنظیمِ بحرانات
Agency overview
Formed2001
JurisdictionGovernment of Pakistan
Agency executives

The National Crisis Management Cell was established in 2001 to tackle the domestic and foreign terrorism , to promote efforts towards rigorous implementation of National Action Plan (Pakistan) and to get rid the society of religious extremism.[4] Its influence and role in the intelligence community encompasses in issuing warnings and formulating efforts against all kinds of threat matrix posed to the state.[4]

Headquartered in Islamabad, the National Crisis Management Cell is responsible for electronic monitoring and aerial surveillance to enforce the law, order and security situation throughout the country. It has established computerized and electronic facilities, through an electronic system, in all four provinces.[5]

List of Director Generals
  • 2001–03: Mr. Umar Hayat Luk PSP[6]
  • 2003–07: Brig. Javed Iqbal Lodhi[7]
  • 2007–10: Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema[8]
  • 2010–13: Air Cdre. Tariq Ahmad Lodhi[5]
  • 2013–14: Mr. Fareed Khan PAS[9]
  • 2014–16: Mr. Saud Aziz PSP [1]
  • 2016 to date -: Mr. Muhammad Ehsanullah Bajwa

List of Directors
  • 2004-2008: Mr. Ali Abbas Gardezi PSP
  • 2008-2011: Mr. Azmat Haseeb Ranjha PAS
  • 2007-2016: Mr. Kashif Shabbir Lali(SSU-Pb)
  • 2015 to date: Dr. Tariq Ishaque PSP [1]

Sources and readings

References
  1. "NACTA". Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  2. Staff writer, Staff editor-in-chief. "National Crises Management Cell" (Microsoft word). Govt. of Pakistan. Islamabad, Pakistan: Ministry of Interior (MoI). Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  3. Gishkori, Zahid (10 October 2013). "NCMC report: Pakistan witnesses rise in rape cases". Express Tribune, 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  4. Sehgal, Ikram (2006). "Security of Pakistan". Defence Journal, 2006. 10 (3–5). HrDfAAAAMAAJ.
  5. Staff (24 November 2012). "National Crisis Management Cell Islamabad". Pakistan News. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  6. Staff. "Umar Hayat Luk". NUST. Department of Political science and security studies. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  7. Sagemony, Terrance (23 September 2013). "SC seeks affidavits from Musharraf, 10 others". Nation. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  8. Mir, Amir (2010). The Bhutto murder trail : from Waziristan to G.H.Q. Chennai: Tranquebar Press. ISBN 978-9380658612.
  9. From Web Edition (August 17, 2013 - Updated 2:35PM PKT). "Islamabad standoff: Nisar forms 3-member probe committee". The News International. Retrieved 17 January 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)

Bibliography
  • Hussain, Zahid (2008). Frontline Pakistan : the path to catastrophe and the killing of Benazir Bhutto (New ed.). Delhi: Penguin India. ISBN 978-0143064794.
  • editors, Jianhong Liu, Bill Hebenton, Susyan Jou (2012-12-09). Handbook of Asian criminology. New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 146145218X.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  • Carsten, Michael D. (editor) (2007). International law studies. Newport, R.I.: Naval War College. ISBN 978-0160800689.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
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