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National Counter Terrorism Authority

institutions. Also NACTA

Pakistan’s federal counter-terrorism coordination body. Set up administratively under the Interior Ministry around 2008–09, it was given legal status by the NACTA Act, 2013, with a Board of Governors chaired by the Interior Minister and including the heads of the intelligence agencies and provincial police. Its tasks include pooling threat information, drafting national counter-terrorism and counter-extremism strategies and coordinating the National Action Plan.12

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Sources

  1. National Counter Terrorism Authority. Wikipedia. Reference
  2. NACTA: The Missing Link in Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The Friday Times, 2026-09-24. Press

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