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Pakistan's AI sits inside the state — a faceless tax audit system at the FBR, a threat-assessment centre in Punjab — with the National AI Policy approved in July 2025.

AI readiness
0.37
Rank 124 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
On the record
8
entries across 2 industries
National programme
2025
National AI Policy 2025
National programme

National AI Policy 2025

Announced 2025. Its pillars are ecosystem, awareness and readiness, skills, secure AI, transformation, international cooperation.

Services 50.9% · Industry 20.1% · Agriculture 23% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025

Kind
Role
8 entries

Government & Public Sector

7

The Federal Board of Revenue is building an AI-based 'faceless' audit system, and Punjab has opened a threat-assessment centre issuing district alerts.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPakistan8 Sep 2026

Pakistan's Election Commission will set up an AI wing by December

Election Commission of Pakistan — Pakistan's Election Commission will launch an artificial intelligence wing for internal technical support, part of a broader AI in election administration drive, alongside a fully digital E-Office system due by December 2026. Sikandar Sultan Raja has set 15 October 2026 as the deadline for all wings to complete E-Office training — one step in the commission's electoral body automation. A new interactive public site was also approved.

Election officialnation.com.pk
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorPakistan7 Sep 2026

Pakistan's higher education regulator trains 400 faculty in AI

Higher Education Commission Pakistan — Pakistan's National Academy of Higher Education, part of the Higher Education Commission, has put around 400 public-university lecturers and assistant professors through two AI training cohorts, 332 and about 64. The AI Literacy for Educators programme spanned generative AI, large language models and machine learning plus discipline uses in research, data analytics, banking, business and healthcare. Managing director Noor Amna Malik says AI is fast reshaping how knowledge is taught, researched, created, applied and assessed.

phoneworld.com.pk
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPakistan5 Sep 2026

Punjab opens an AI threat-assessment centre for district alerts

Government of Punjab — Punjab chief minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif opened the Provincial Intelligence Fusion and Threat Assessment Centre in Lahore and e-launched AI Hub Punjab, which she calls Pakistan's first provincial AI hub. The centre combines intelligence from multiple agencies and alerts district coordination committees digitally, catching problems before becoming major incidents.

Intelligence analystapp.com.pk
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPakistan5 Sep 2026

NADRA moves three million pensioners onto AI face verification

National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) — More than three million Pakistani retirees now confirm pension eligibility through AI face verification pensioners technology instead of fingerprint scans, under a newly activated National Pensioners Verification System run by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). Coverage spans federal, provincial, military and autonomous-institution pension schemes, targeting older and disabled claimants whose worn prints routinely defeated fingerprint readers, with Pakistan's Prime Minister launching the system on 20 August 2026. Each successful scan triggers an automatic digital Proof-of-Life Certificate, logged straight into the Pension Controller Register System without manual paperwork. This marks a shift toward facial biometrics for pension verification across Pakistan's public retirement system.

Pension verification officerapp.com.pk
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPakistan26 Jul 2026

Pakistan's tax authority builds an AI-based 'faceless' audit system

Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) — Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue has started building an AI-based 'faceless' tax system to spot anomalies and run AI tax audits without taxpayers and officials meeting. The faceless system is framed as part of reforming the revenue authority.

Tax auditorpropakistani.pk
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPakistan24 Jun 2026

Pakistan's accountability bureau sets up AI investigation system

National Accountability Bureau — Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau has set up an AI investigation system to support white-collar crime investigations. National Centre of Artificial Intelligence chairman Dr Yasar Ayaz says the platform is built to assist investigators, and it should make investigations more effective once running; the bureau has not reported it in live use.

Anti-corruption investigatordawn.com
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPakistan29 Apr 2026

Pakistan's judiciary issues national guidelines for AI in courts

National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee — Pakistan's National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee has issued the National Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Institutions, approved at its 57th meeting. They let AI in the courts help with legal research, document processing, case management and other functions, assisting rather than replacing judicial decision-making and human judgment.

ljcp.gov.pk

Agriculture & Food

1

Telenor Pakistan runs an Urdu AI voice bot for farmers.

DeploymentAgriculture & FoodPakistan23 Apr 2026

Telenor Pakistan launches Urdu AI voice bot for farmers

Telenor Pakistan — Telenor Pakistan launched Kissan Dost Bashir via its Khushaal Watan agriculture platform, billing it as Pakistan's first conversational AI farm voice bot. Answering in Urdu around the clock via the 7272 helpline and 7272.pk portal, it offers live mandi rates, weather-based crop advice and livestock guidance to farmers facing literacy and connectivity barriers.

Farmerapp.com.pk
Latest on the record
  • DeploymentPakistan's Election Commission will set up an AI wing by DecemberGovernment & Public Sector8 Sep 2026nation.com.pk
  • Evidence of adoptionPakistan's higher education regulator trains 400 faculty in AIGovernment & Public Sector7 Sep 2026phoneworld.com.pk
  • DeploymentPunjab opens an AI threat-assessment centre for district alertsGovernment & Public Sector5 Sep 2026app.com.pk
  • DeploymentNADRA moves three million pensioners onto AI face verificationGovernment & Public Sector5 Sep 2026app.com.pk
  • DeploymentPakistan's tax authority builds an AI-based 'faceless' audit systemGovernment & Public Sector26 Jul 2026propakistani.pk
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