U.S. builds state-of-the-art security operations center in Pakistan

United States administration has confirmed that a state-of-the-art security operations centre was built inside Pakistan like other countries around the world.

“Sure. It’s – I think he referred to tactical operations centers, yeah. And there’s one of them – there are several, I think, in – of our embassies worldwide. It’s an embassy operations center. I don’t know if you’re aware of what the operations center does here at the State Department. I’m a veteran of the operations center. It’s basically monitoring worldwide activity 24/7 in order to – if something happens in anywhere in the world that affects our people or affects American citizens or is a crisis that it has to involve the Secretary of State or, rather, the interagency, the operations center is, if you will, the first responders to any kind of activity like that, to any kind of crisis,” said Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson of the US State Department in daily press briefing yesetrday.
He further said that these function along the – kind of along the same lines. He said that they are – the embassy operations center are kind of a central location – is a central location to kind of coordinate security and emergency events as well as monitor threats to the embassy or its personnel and it allows for real-time communications with Diplomatic Security and department officials in Washington. It also allows us a way to connect directly with host government officials. So we have one of these in Pakistan, we have them elsewhere in the world as well, he concluded.
Mark Toner also expressed concern on reports that several Pakistani bloggers and activists have been reported missing and we’re going to continue to monitor the situation. He said US welcome that the interior ministry, as he believed, announced that it’s going to investigate the disappearance of one of those individuals, Salman Haider, and we also appreciate the fact that both members – or, rather, members of both houses of parliament have voiced their concern and called for an investigation into all four disappearances.
Of course, we value freedom of expression. That’s something we take very seriously and are going to continue to monitor the situation in Pakistan, Toner said.