# National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Pakistan
- **Instrument type**: Policy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (approved by the Federal Cabinet)
- **Adopted**: 2025-07-30

## In brief

National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025 is a non-binding policy of Pakistan, issued by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (approved by the Federal Cabinet). It was adopted on 30 July 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below.

## Summary

Pakistan's first national AI policy, organised around six pillars: innovation ecosystem, awareness and readiness, secure AI, transformation of sectors, AI infrastructure, and international partnerships. It proposes a National AI Fund drawn from Ignite's R&D fund, centres of excellence, venture and innovation funds, regulatory sandboxes and KPIs, with an AI Council to oversee delivery. Targets include large-scale training of AI professionals and funded research projects.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (approved by the Federal Cabinet). Oversight: MoITT with a proposed national AI Council and implementation directorate. Stated purpose: Build a domestic AI ecosystem, skills base and infrastructure while managing ethical and security risks.

## Key dates

2025-08-14: MoITT press release confirms National AI Policy 2025 approved

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0148 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0148; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/pakistan-national-artificial-intelligence-policy-2025
- **Official source**: https://www.moitt.gov.pk/SiteImage/Policies/National%20AI%20Policy.pdf
- **Source document**: National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025
- **Published by**: Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Government of Pakistan
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025" [AIPT-POL-0148, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0148 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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