ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has formally appointed Moeed Yusuf as the country’s National Security Adviser (NSA), a notification from the cabinet division said on Tuesday.
Since December 2019, Yusuf has served as a special assistant to the prime minister on national security and strategic policy planning.
“The Prime Minister has been pleased to approve that Dr. Moeed W Yusuf, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security and Strategic Policy Planning, shall function as National Security Adviser with the status of Federal Minister, with immediate effect,” the notification, dated May 17, said.
Before taking office as the PM’s aide, Yusuf was associate vice president of the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
He is the author of ‘Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia’ and has a PhD from Boston University.
