In pursuance of the 18th Constitutional Amendment, the subjects were devolved. Rules of Business, 1973 were accordingly amended and the functions/entities of the defunct Ministry of Culture were transferred to provincial governments. However, some of the organizations/functions were retained at the Federal level and transferred to the Cabinet Division, Inter-Provincial Coordination Division, Economic Affairs Division, Planning and Development Division and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
These functions were later assigned to the newly created Ministry of National Heritage & Integration on 26th October 2011, which was amalgamated with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 7th June 2013.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and National Heritage was bifurcated into two separate Divisions, i.e. National History and Literary Heritage (NH & LH) Division and Information & Broadcasting on 5th January 2016.
The NH&LH Division was placed under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training on 19th August 2019, which was further renamed as National Heritage and Culture Division on 10th April 2020.
