The National Crisis Management Cell ( ur, ) ( reporting name: NCMC) was primarily a domestic intelligence

assessment Assessment may refer to: Healthcare *Health assessment, identifies needs of the patient and how those needs will be addressed *Nursing assessment, gathering information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual s ...

and

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activitie ...

institution/agency, operational under the Ministry of Interior (MoI),

Government of Pakistan The Government of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=hakúmat-e pákistán) abbreviated as GoP, is a federal government established by the Constitution of Pakistan as a constituted governing authority of the four provinces, two autonomous territorie ...

. The agency secondarily acted as a co-ordinating platform for all the other intelligence agencies in

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. Other activities of the cell involved building efforts towards

counter-intelligence Counterintelligence is an activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage, sabotage, assassinations or ot ...

counter-proliferation Counterproliferation refers to diplomatic, intelligence, and military efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons, including both weapons of mass destruction (WMD), long-range missiles, and certain conventional weapons. Nonproliferation and ar ...

counter-insurgency Counterinsurgency (COIN) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionar ...

and

counter-terrorism Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or ...

as well as assisting the

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government i ...

, at all levels of commands, in managing intelligence. The National Crisis Management Cell was established in 2001 to tackle the domestic and foreign

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

and to get rid of religious extremism in the country. Its influence and role in the intelligence community encompasses in issuing warnings and formulating efforts against all kinds of

threat A threat is a communication of intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. Intimidation is a tactic used between conflicting parties to make the other timid or psychologically insecure for coercion or control. The act of intimidation for co ...

matrix posed to the state.After tragic incident of Army Pubic School, NCMC promoted efforts towards rigorous implementation of

National Action Plan (Pakistan) The National Action Plan is an action plan that was established by the Government of Pakistan in December 2014 to crack down on terrorism and to supplement the ongoing anti-terrorist offensive in Federally Administered Tribal Areas. It is cons ...

. After Establishment of National Counter Terrorism Authority, Pakistan in March 2013, National Crises Management Cell was annulled w.e.f. July 1, 2016.

List of director generals

*2007–09: Brig(R) Javed Iqbal Cheema *2009–10: Wing Cmdr(R). Tariq Ahmad Lodhi *2010–12: Brig(R) Javed Iqbal Lodhi *2012-12: Lt. Col(R) Umar Hayat Luk *2012–13: Brig(R) Javed Iqbal Lodhi *2013-13: Mr. Muhammad Ehsanullah Bajwa PSP *2013–14: Wing Cmdr(R). Tariq Ahmad Lodhi *2014–16: Mr. Saud Aziz PSP

List of directors

* 2006-2013 Mr. Farid Ahmad Khan, Joint Secretary

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List of director generals

List of directors

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