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The Intelligence Bureau (Urdu: سررشتہِ سراغرسانی ; IB) is an intelligence and security agency in Pakistan, focused primarily on non-military intelligence. Established in 1947, the IB is Pakistan's oldest intelligence agency. It is led by the Director General (DG IB), who is usually an officer from the Police Service of Pakistan.
The National Intelligence Coordination Committee (NICC) of Pakistan is headed by the Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The overarching intelligence coordination body was given assent by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan in November 2020. [ 3 ]
The National Intelligence Board (NIB), formerly the National Foreign Intelligence Board and before that the United States Intelligence Board [1] is a body of senior U.S. Intelligence Community leaders currently led by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). [2] The Board is tasked with reviewing and approving National Intelligence ...
Fuad Asadullah is the first DG IB who is a career Intelligence Bureau officer and has reached to the rank of DG IB after repeated promotions that he got for his services for the nation. Earlier Fuad Asadullah has served as Joint Director General IB, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and as Joint Director General Intelligence Bureau Academy, Islamabad.
In October 2004, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved setting up of NTRO, a spy organisation for technical intelligence, modelled on the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States, which would be the repository of the country's technical intelligence (TECHINT) assets—spy satellites, UAVs and spy planes. [7]
The predecessor of the Military Intelligence Bureau was established in 1954 as the Intelligence Bureau [note 1], [8] and after 1985, the "Intelligence Bureau" was merged with the "Special Military Intelligence Office" [note 2] to form the Military Intelligence Bureau in response to the changing times. [3] [9]
Operation Tupac is the codename of a military-intelligence contingency program that was run in the 1980s by Pakistan's main intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). It has a three-part action plan to provide covert support to anti- India separatists and militants in the insurgency in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir .
[2] [3] [4] Accordingly, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) was authorized to create a multi-agency centre (MAC) in New Delhi. Now functioning 24/7 as the nodal body for sharing intelligence inputs, MAC coordinates with representatives from numerous agencies , different ministries, both central and state.