[3] The Provincial Special Branches were attached to the offices of either the Inspector General of Police or the chief secretary of the respective provinces.

[4] This reorganization led to the abolition of the Thuggee and Dacoity Department and the merger of the Central Special Branch into the DCI.

Due to the fact, IB was concerned with internal security matters, and was not set up for foreign intelligence collection.

These considerations ultimately led to the creation of the ISI in 1948 as it quickly took the charge of gathering strategic and foreign intelligence at all levels of command.

Bhutto and his close aides, including Ghulam Mustafa Khar, in a counter-coup invited both Generals to the President House under false pretenses and obtained their resignations.

Many of its operations were directed towards infiltration, conducting espionage, counterespionage, and providing key information on terrorist organizations.

[10] Moreover, it has been instrumental in efforts to break terrorist networks and organised crime rackets throughout the country especially Karachi through its sophisticated human and technical intelligence apparatus.

One case under discussion in the Supreme Court of Pakistan is for the alleged involvement of the agency in destabilizing the Punjab Government in 2008.

In January 2021, the IB caught a former militant, Salimullah, filming a strategic military installation in Kashmir for RAW.

The IB unmasked 25 Indian agents and successfully thwarted India's attempt to infiltrate Pakistan security apparatus.

In yet another highly secretive and successful operation, a retired-Rangers commando, Muhammad Ali who was working as a hitman for RAW by running an assassination cell within Pakistan that aimed to eliminate prominent Kashmiri militants was nabbed along with his accomplices in 2023.