Abstract
Recent wave of terrorism after Operation Zarb-e-Az 'b
has witnessed a dispersal of terrorist elements and has also
initiated targeting of soft vulnerable non-kinetic social outlets as
a means to deal considerable counter value collateral damage.
Where one purpose of such a strategy could be to divert attention
of law enforcement away from terrorist nerve centers, another
noteworthy factor is that academic institutions are extremely
vulnerable given their overall design and security layout. Apart
from infrastructural deficiencies, academic institutions also house
a considerable diversity of students and employees; therefore,
there may be an instance of diffusion of extremist or terrorist
elements both as operatives and as collaborators. Attacks on
Army Public School Peshawar and Bacha Khan University
revealed that terrorists had sufficient information and
infrastructural knowledge that allowed them relative ease of
operation. Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) is a mean to
consolidate available data and information regarding any
individual working in an organization. It enhances outreach of the
organization in verifying inclinations and predispositions of any
prospective individual aspiring to join an institution. PRP in
academic institutions would be an enhancement of personal
information collection procedure only to maintain consistent
verification of on-campus activities as a means to further
scrutinize not only miscreants but terrorist prone elements. The
object is to allow a database that can be verifiable with NADRA,
intelligence authorities, and other law enforcement authorities
without physical intervention that can introduce caution and
allow sufficiency of time toprepare a response.
Dr. Iram Khalid. (2016) ROLE OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN COUNTERTERRORISM: INSTITUTING PERSONNEL RELIABILITY PROGRAMS (PRP), Journal of Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1.
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