Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is an important organ of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting  which was initally created in 1956 under the Ministry of Industries to enforce Newsprint Control. Later on in 1958, it was transferred to the Ministry of Information in order to carry out the responsibility of circulation audit of the print media.

Presently, the headquarter of ABC is located at Islamabad with its Regional Offices at Lahore and Karachi. The office at Islamabad is headed by a Director (BS-19) while the offices at Karachi and Lahore are supervised  by Deputy Director (BS-18) and Assistant Director (BS-17) respectively.