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The Executive Committee of the Space Research Council (denoted as ECSRC) is a defunct institution of the government of Pakistan and was an executive and joint bureaucratic directorate established in 1981.[1] The committee was tasked with formulating and developing guidelines for the Pakistani space program as well as coordinating financial management of the program.[2] The committee was placed under the joint control of the Ministry of Finance led by Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Ministry of Science led by Lieutenant-General Zahid Ali Akbar and officials of the PAEC led by Munir Ahmad Khan.[citation needed] It was established under the executive decree, "Ordinance No. XX" of 1981, which was issued in the Gazette of Pakistan on 21 May 1989, by the President of Pakistan.[2] Since its establishment, approximately 13 meetings of ECSRC were held and headed by the Finance minister.[2] The ECSRC took financial decision of setting the Flight Test Center on Sonmiani Beach as well as managing the financial and scientific development of integrated space programme.[2] The last meeting of the ECSRC was held on 9 September 1999, and it was officially devolved to Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and the Nuclear Command Authority, the following year.[1]

On 10 December 2000, the Ministry of Science as government authority issued an "Office Order No. 564", through its notification "No. 2000 Admin-II.".[1] The committee was devolved and transferred from SUPARCO to the National Command Authority (NCA).[1] Its personnel and members were replaced with Development Control Committee (DCC) of NCA.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d e Government official of Ministry of Science and Defence. "History". Government of Pakistan (Suparco). Directorate for Public Relations. Archived from the original on 17 April 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d Alves, Gasparini (2000). The Transfer of Dual-Use Outer Space Technologies: Confrontation or Cooperation (PDF) (PhD). Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales. pp. 93–99. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
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