Experts for devising NSS based on broad spectrum of security concerns

Experts have stressed the need for working out a national security strategy based on a broad spectrum of security concerns, including civil, military, political, economic, energy, environmental and human security. In his deliberation of the Shaheed Colonel Jamil Ahmed Memorial Lecture 2014, organised by Asiatic Society of Bangladesh at its auditorium in the city, Lt Gen (retd) ATM Zahirul Alam said, ‘National Security Strategy for Bangladesh should include policies and strategies on security and national development matters based on the broader concept of security.’ He viewed that the modern concept of national security is broad and all-encompassing. ‘Apart from military and civil security, it includes political security, economic security, energy security, environment security, human security etc,’ said Zahirul Alam, also a former Commandant of the National Defence College. Experts observed that threats to nations are multidimensional these days that call for collective, collaborative and co-operative efforts and responses from the governments at national, regional and global levels. Chairperson of the Trust Management Committee for Social Science of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh Prof Akmal Hussain and its convener Prof AKM Golam Rabbani also spoke on the occasion, according to UNB.