[2] It is primarily responsible for all sorts of topographical land surveys of cis-frontier areas of the entire country.

The department is actively participating in the national development projects and thus fulfilling the ever growing surveying and mapping demands of various government / semi-government and autonomous bodies.

Over the past years, the department has taken a mile stone turn by gradually switching over to surveying and mapping using modern techniques, methods and equipment.

This resulted in the outstanding capability of using and manipulating topographical data to develop wide range of applications including Geographic Information System.

To delineate and demarcate International Borders, carry out topographic survey, prepare national geographical data base and publish maps of Pakistan Type Geology, Mineralogy, Geography, and Earth Sciences To survey, print and publish topographical maps of cis-frontier terrain of Pakistan on scale 1:50,000 and derived maps on scales 1:250,000 and 1:1,000,000 for general public use and the defence forces of Pakistan.