Formed 1960 Employees Highly classified | Jurisdiction Pakistan Navy | |
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Headquarters Rawalpindi, Punjab Province Agency executive RAdm Raja Jamil Akhtar SI(M), Director-General Parent department Ministry of Defense
(Government of Pakistan) | ||
The Directorate for Naval Intelligence, known as "Naval Intelligence" and its acronym "NI", is the intelligence arm of the Pakistan Navy. It is headquartered in Islamabad, Pakistan at NHQ.
The NI directly reports to Chief of Naval Staff, and is subordinated to the Ministry of Defence of Pakistan. The NI is mandate and tasked with gathering naval intelligence and providing the information to Pakistan Defence Forces at large with the naval intelligence picture. The NI provides warning of war or terrorism from the sea; instructs and trains the Sea Corps' (Pakistan Marines, Naval Special Forces) on areas related to field intelligence, intelligence-related human resources, and hydrography; and coordinates between the Sea Corps and other elements in the Intelligence Community.