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| The Federal Investigation Agency (acronym: FIA)is an agency of the Pakistan Ministry of Interior that serves as a federal criminal investigative body. It has a wide role in anti-terrorism, anti-fascism, anti-corruption, human smuggling and copyright infringement policing, similar in function to the USA's FBI. Its motto is Accuracy and Honesty. The FIA's headquarters is located in G-9/4 in Islamabad. It has various branch offices located in all major cities across Pakistan.
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| A federally controlled Police Establishment first came into existence in 1942 during the Second World War to take up investigation of corruption, rampant in the Supplies and Procurement Department of the then British Raj. It was named as Special Police Establishment. After the Partition of India in 1947, is was renamed to Pakistan Special Police Establishment (PSPE).The said establishment was given schedule of offenses with Ordinance VIII of 1948. With the passage of time, the PSPE, apart from investigating the offenses of bribery and corruption against Central Government Employees, was also given powers to investigate cases relating to the offenses under the following laws:-
i. Official Secret Act, 1923 ii. Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 iii. Passport Offenses Act, 1952 iv. Customs Act, 1959 The FIA was established in 1975 under the FIA Act, 1974 and superseded the Pakistan Special Police Establishment (PSPE). at . In 2005, the FIA led a series of high profile raids on companies involved in video piracy. It was also reported that 110 FIA personnel were investigated for their alleged role in human trafficking and most of them were dismissed from the service. In 2006, the FIA resumed operational links with its Indian counterpart, the Central Bureau of Investigation, after a gap of 17 years.
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Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan) |
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| Intelligence Bureau (IB) is Pakistan's main domestic intelligence and espionage agency. It is part of the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan. The IB's tasks include counter-intelligence and internal Security matters.
The current Director-General is Javed Noor since 17 May, 2009. Before him, Dr Shoaib Suddle was DG IB for 10 months
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The existence of IB predates the creation of Pakistan, as it was a part of the pre-war Intelligence Bureau of British India, and the present day IB was created from elements given to Pakistan upon independence. It was initially the main Pakistani Agency, with responsibility for strategic and foreign intelligence, as well as counter-espionage and domestic affairs. Its performance in the 1948 war was however considered less than exemplary[1] due to the fact that the pre-independence Bureau was concerned with internal security matters, and was not set up for foreign intelligence collection. As a result, after the war, a new agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was created, and it took over the strategic and foreign intelligence roles. This is the supreme agency in Pakistan.
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