The Human Security Index Chapter: 4 THE HUMAN SECURITY INDEX One of the prime objectives of the report is to construct a Human Security Index(HSI) for Pakistan, which truly reflects the various security concerns of the people and is able to gauge the change in the level of security over the last two decades. The Chapter is in three parts. The first part describes the structure of the proposed HSI in terms of the hierarchy of indicators of security. The second part identifies indicators at the lowest level of the hierarchy and the sources of data on these indicators. The time series is from 2001-02, in five yearly intervals, to the most recent year for which data is available. 4.1 The HSI for Pakistan As highlighted in Chapter One, we have preferred to go back to the original concept of human security as enunciated by Mahbub ul Haq. He saw human security as primarily consisting of the following: Freedom from‘Want’ Freedom from‘Fear’ Two more dimensions have been added by us to reach a more comprehensive coverage of human security, as follows: Freedom from‘Inequality’ and‘Oppression’ Quality of Governance At the second level, the components are shown in Chart 4.1. This comprehensive coverage of human security has not been achieved before. 23