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, tasked and primarily responsible for implementing the internal policies, state security, administration of internal affairs involving the state and affairs related to narcotics control. The ministry is led by the

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, the Minister of State for Interior and the Interior Secretary. The Interior Secretary is a Grade 22 officer whereas the Interior Minister is a leading member of the federal cabinet. On 11 February 2025, Narcotics Control ministry was merged in to Ministry of Interior as an attached department/wing of ministry. and now it is called Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control. The minister is required to be a member of

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. During the martial regimes of Generals Ayub Khan and

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, from 1962 until 1971, the Interior Minister was called Home Affairs Minister.

Organisation

* Minister of Interior **Minister of State for Interior ** Secretary of Interior ***Additional Secretary I ****Joint Secretary Administration ****Joint Secretary Political ***Additional Secretary II ****Joint Secretary Information & Communication Technology ****Joint Secretary Civil Armed Forces ***Additional Secretary III ****Joint Secretary Immigration & Nationality ****Joint Secretary Legal Affairs

Agencies

Islamabad Police

Capital Development Authority (CDA)

Directorate General of Civil Defence

The Directorate General of Civil Defence provides civil defence and emergency services.

Immigration & Passports

Deals with all the issues of Pakistani citizenship, Passports and Visas.

Federal Investigation Agency

A border control,

criminal investigation Criminal investigation is an applied science that involves the study of facts that are then used to inform criminal trials. A complete criminal investigation can include Search and seizure, searching, interviews, interrogations, Evidence (law), ...

counter-intelligence Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting ac ...

and

security agency A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a state. They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other ...

under the control of the

Interior Secretary of Pakistan The interior secretary of Pakistan (Urdu: ) is the Federal Secretary (Pakistan), federal secretary for the Ministry of Interior (Pakistan), Ministry of Interior. As in-charge of the country's law and order machinery, the interior secretary is one ...

National Academy for Prisons Administration (NAPA)

Federal Government's training institute for prison staff of all four provinces of Pakistan.

National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA)

Domestic counterterrorism Authority of Pakistan.

National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA)

Specialized agency to investigate cyber crime within the countr

National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA)

NADRA regulates government databases and statistically manages the sensitive registration database of all the national citizens of Pakistan.

National Police Academy of Pakistan

National Police Academy of Pakistan is a federal training centre for the senior officers of the civilian law enforcement agencies of Pakistan.

National Police Bureau (NPB)

Exit Control List (ECL)

Pakistan Coast Guards

Frontier Constabulary

Pakistan Rangers

Frontier Corps, Balochistan

Frontier Corps, KPK

Gilgit Baltistan Scouts

Anti Narcotics Force

List of Interior Ministers of Pakistan

References

External links

Ministry of the Interior
{{Cabinet of Pakistan, state=collapsed Interior

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