Pakistan Tobacco Board is a statutory semi-autonomous corporate body with its own Board of Directors and a Chairman heads the organization. It works under the overall administrative and policy control of the Federal Government of Pakistan in the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. It was formed in 1968 through a statute known as the PTB Ordinance No.I of 1968 (which subsequently in 1973 became a part of the Constitution of Pakistan) for the promotion of the cultivation, manufacture and export of tobacco and tobacco products and matters ancillary thereto.