The
National Security Council (
reporting name:
NSC) is a federal institutional and consultative body chaired by the
Prime Minister of
Pakistan as its chairman. The NSC is a principal forum that is mandated for considering
national security and
foreign policy matters with the senior national security advisers and Cabinet ministers. The idea and inception of National Security Council was first conceived in 1969 under the
President Yahya Khan, its functions were to advise and assist the president and prime minister on national security and foreign policies, since then, however, this idea of this institution remains highly debatable and controversial in Pakistan's
political science circles who argues that the NSC provides legal cover for expanding the role and influence of the
military science circles in nation's public and political science affairs to subdue the popular
democratic transitional process in the country.