Overview
- Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, who inspected the Islamabad center Friday, confirmed the agency’s full rollout and praised the pace of work.
- During the tour, he reviewed labs for digital forensics, narcotics testing, financial crime analysis, and questioned documents, along with DNA, firearms, serology, and explosives rooms.
- He ordered regional offices in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan to give police and prosecutors access to the same tools outside the capital.
- Officials said phase one is complete and a second build-out will start soon with 25 more specialized labs, though they did not give a public timetable.
- The digital unit can test for deepfakes, analyze phones and computers, and examine audio, video, networks, and drones, and it has produced more than 1,500 case reports in a year; editors note the benefits will depend on police and courts using this evidence well.