Human Security in Pakistan 2.3 S upport for the Concept and Application of Human Security A Commission on Human Security was established in January 2001 in response to the UN Secretary General’s call at the 2000 Millennium Summit for a world “free from want” and “free from fear.” This was accompanied by the creation of the United Nations Trust Fund on Human Security. The Fund carries out and finances activities carried out by UN organizations to demonstrate the value-added of the human security system. Today, Canada and Norway are the most ardent supporters of the human security concept at the country level. The Government of Japan, for instance, covers comprehensively all the channels that are considered threats to dignity and human survival, like violations of human rights, environmental degradation, transnational organized crime, refugees, illicit drugs, poverty, infectious diseases, such as AIDS, and anti-personnel land-mines and supports endeavors to face these threats. Other nations, such as Canada, Austria, Chile, Jordan, Ireland, Switzerland, Slovenia, Netherlands. Norway and Thailand have adopted a narrower definition of human security. These countries emphasize on human rights law, children in armed conflict, small arms, and antipersonnel landmines. There is a need to highlight Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index (GNH). The GNH is based on the principle that“sustainable development should take a holistic approach towards progress and give equal importance to non-economic aspects of wellbeing.” The idea behind the creation of the GNH was to provide policymakers the means to verify the impact that key decisions have on the population in general and to also provide incentives for improving overall policy decisions. The GNH is built on four fundamental pillars: good governance, sustainable socio-economic development, cultural preservation and environmental preservation. These four aspects are broken down further into seven domains: psychological well-being, health, education, time use, cultural diversity and resilience, and living standards. The GNH lens requires that all government decisions and policies must be evaluated in terms of their potential impact on any of the seven dimensions before implementation. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say, in that the poverty rate has been reduced from 36% to 12% from 2007 to 2017 in Bhutan, according to the World Bank. In Pakistan, a National Security Policy for 2022-26 was announced on the 14 th of January 2022, which represents a major step forward from the traditional notion of security as defense, military preparedness, and sovereignty. The focus now in the policy is to take a holistic approach and include human security and the well-being of citizens; underlining this paradigmatic shift is the emphasis on economic security, promoting equitable economic development, and removing regional disparities. However, this citizen-centric policy is still to be presented to the Parliament. 14