He said: "Amongst you are your country's future leadership and hence expectations from you would be high. You, therefore, have to continue to work hard in your quest for excellence. Please remember that you have to rise above biases, petty prejudices and concentrate on bigger issues focusing on substance rather than form or semantics.
"I hope that your stay at the College has enabled your to foster better understanding and friendship among you as individuals as well as your countries. We earnestly hope that this association and these bonds of fraternity, brotherhood and co-operation shall endure forever." He said due to acclaims of the programme, plan is under consideration to increase the duration of the course from five months to 44 weeks.
Over the years, the NDC emerged as a unique identity of Pakistan. It not only imparts high standards of professional education to the officers of Pakistan Armed Forces but also trains a number of officers belonging to the Armed Forces of different friendly countries in operational art, national, and military strategy. It is because of the high standards of professionalism being maintained by NDC that it has become a matter of pride and prestige for senior military and civil officers from Pakistan and abroad to graduate from this institution.