![]() ![]() The compound where Ramzi Yousef was captured. National security and efforts against terrorism Although ostensibly a crime-investigation service, the FIA also did investigations of accused political opponents and critics of financial impropriety, from tax evasions to taking bribery while in office. When the FIA was created, it took cases ON corruption at every level of the government. Initially, its first roles were to build efforts against organised crimes, smuggling, human trafficking, immigration offences, and passport scandals. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was created on 13 January 1975, after being codified in the Constitution with the passing of the FIA Act, 1974, by the State parliament. Ahmad in Prime Minister Secretariat, on 7 March 1972. With the passage of time, the PSPE, apart from investigating the offences of bribery and corruption against officials of the federal government, was also given powers to investigate cases relating to offences under the following laws:Īfter the 1971 war with India, police reforms were carried out by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after adopting recommendations from the report submitted by bureaucrat G. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the SPE was equally divided between the governments of India, which formed the CBI, and Pakistan, which retained it as the Pakistan Special Police Establishment (PSPE) in 1947. Originally the Police Establishment was tasked to take up investigation of corruption in Indian Civil Service (ICS), rampant in the Supplies and Procurement Department of the then British Raj. In 1942, the British government established the Special Police Establishment (SPE) in British Raj during the midst of World War II. Anti Trafficking Unit (ATU)-Tasked to combat major violent crimes, to ensure country-wide coverage of human trafficking, as well as to prevent and protect the victims of trafficking.National Central Bureau (NCB)-Tasked to combat transnational/national criminal organisations and enterprises (see organised crime) with assistance from Interpol and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). ![]() Legal Branch (LB)-Responsible to provide legal guidance in all administrative and operational matters as well as protect civil rights.Technical Wing (TW)-Tasked to make efforts to protect Pakistan against foreign intelligence operations and espionage (see counterintelligence and counterproliferation) as well as using scientific assistance to resolve high-technology crimes.Immigration Wing (IW)-Combat human trafficking activities and resist illegal immigration in Pakistan.Economic Crime Wing (ECW)-Mandate to protect Pakistan from economic terrorism and protection of intellectual property rights of the people. ![]()
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