ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi has underlined the need for concrete steps in order to safeguard the nuclear assets of the country from future cyber security attacks.
Addressing the concluding session of Islamabad Conclave-2022, titled “75 Years of Independence: Achieving Comprehensive National Security”, organised by the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, (ISSI), President Arif Alvi said Pakistan acquired nuclear deterrence, which provided the country relief and a credible defence system for 20 to 30 years.
However, he said, with the advent of cyber security, the entire defence system paradigm had changed. He added that concrete steps should be taken to safeguard the national assets from cyber security attacks and a system should be set in place for countering any future cyber-attacks in the country.
President Alvi said that in the past, the superpowers adopted the doctrine of Mutually-Assured Destruction, which diverted resources of the world towards meeting and developing more lethal weapon systems.
He further said that even if a fraction of these resources were diverted, the poverty and hunger in the world could have been eliminated as well as the effects of climate change could have been mitigated.
“Democracy, military defence, information, and communication security, and economic independence were essential elements for a comprehensive defence of the country,” he added.