The Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control (, abbreviated as MoI) is a Cabinet-level ministry of the Government of Pakistan, 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 Interior Minister, 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 parliament. During the martial regimes of Generals Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan, 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, counter-intelligence and security agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan.
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 country.
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 Interior ministerTerm of officePortraitNameTook officeLeft officeTime in office1 Fazl-ur-Rehman2 Khwaja Shahabuddin3Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani4Iskander Ali Mirza5A. K. Fazlul Huq6Abdus Sattar7 Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur8Jalal-ud-din Jalal Baba9K. M. Sheikh10Zakir Husain11Khan Habibullah Khan Marwat12Ayub Khan13 Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan14 Afzal Rahman Khan15Abdul Hamid Khan16 Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan–Vacant17Zulfikar Ali Bhutto18 Abdul Qayyum Khan19Zulfikar Ali Bhutto–Vacant20 Inamul Haque Khan21Mahmoud Haroon22F. S. Lodhi23Muhammad Khan Junejo24Aslam Khattak25Wasim Sajjad26 Malik Naseem Ahmed Aheer27Aitzaz Ahsan28 Mian Zahid Sarfraz29Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain30 Fateh Khan Bandial31 Naseerullah Babar32 Omar Afridi33Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain34 Moinuddin Haider35 Faisal Saleh Hayat36Aftab Ahmad Sherpao37Hamid Nawaz Khan38Rehman Malik39 Malik Habib Khan40Nisar Ali Khan41Ahsan Iqbal42 Azam Suleman Khan43Imran Khan44Ijaz Shah45Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad46Rana Sanaullah47 Sarfraz Bugti48 Gohar Ejaz49Mohsin NaqviIncumbent
See also Constitution of Pakistan President of Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan Defence Minister of Pakistan Foreign Minister of Pakistan Finance Minister of Pakistan Police Service of Pakistan Civil Defense of Pakistan
References
External links Ministry of the Interior