It is an open secret that the National Security Council's strategic planning directorate is really devoted to communications tasks, and that the State Department's policy planning staff is actually a speechwriting office.
While Israeli rhetoric threatening military action has died down over the past year or so, the head of Israel's military planning directorate, Maj Gen Nimrod Sheffer, has also warned that it is still a possibility.
The senior official said the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, after months of planning, created a directorate for the elimination of Iraqi unconventional arms on March 22, and that its director is Douglas M. Englund, a retired Army colonel with long experience in arms control and weapons elimination.
For instance, in Bangladesh, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has separate divisions for "Health Services" and "Family Planning" with separate directorates and cadres of workers, complicating efforts to integrate services.
"This is the new mentality that says, 'Everybody is going to be a warrior first,' everybody is going to have the ability to defend themselves and survive in combat," said William F. Briscoe, director of the directorate for training plans and capabilities review at the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Va.
Gamal Abdul Sattar, the former deputy head of Egypt's religious affairs directorate, was planning to move to Istanbul, it said.
Mr. Ghadhban is already familiar to the other Iraqi oil managers, having served under the government of Saddam Hussein as head of the ministry's directorate of planning.
The directorate of planning and studies at MINAGRI is tasked with M&E.
In January the Express Tribune, the country's most liberal paper, banned for several weeks all criticism of the Taliban on its pages after a deadly attack on company staff.While Mr Mir was undergoing emergency surgery, his brother, another journalist, alleged the attack had been planned by the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), the powerful spy agency of the armed forces.
UK and Poland lobbying Lobbying by Poland and the UK is thought to have stymied a directive regulating shale drills that the commission's environment directorate had planned to include in its 2030 climate and energy package of EU legislation, announced in January.
Hekmatyar joined with Ahmad Shah Massoud's Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party) in a Pakistani plan designed by their Directorate of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to destabilize Afghanistan with cross border raids.
