Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Cheema chaired a high-level meeting to review the Prime Minister’s Office System, an Artificial Intelligence-powered governance platform developed by the Pakistan Digital Authority and designed to improve coordination, monitoring, and efficiency across federal ministries by centralising government operations and strengthening oversight of public sector initiatives.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja, Secretary IT Zarar Hashim Khan, Pakistan Digital Authority Chairman Sohail Munir, and senior officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, who together reviewed the platform’s progress and its proposed rollout across departments. During the briefing, officials from the Pakistan Digital Authority presented a detailed demonstration explaining that the platform connects all federal ministries with the Prime Minister’s Office through a unified digital system, enabling real-time tracking of tasks, projects, and development milestones across government departments. Directives issued by the Prime Minister’s Office will now be delivered instantly to relevant ministries, with continuous progress monitoring allowing decision-makers to stay updated without delays, an approach expected to improve transparency and administrative efficiency across the federal bureaucracy.
A key feature of the system is its automated alert mechanism, which flags overdue tasks through pop-up notifications appearing directly on the accounts of federal secretaries and concerned officers, a function designed to improve accountability and ensure timely follow-up on official directives. The meeting also reviewed a sovereign Artificial Intelligence-based GPT-powered research system developed by the Pakistan Digital Authority, which draws on past government records, decisions, and official directives to support internal research and provide quicker access to institutional knowledge, helping improve both information sharing and decision-making speed across departments. The same tool also functions as a virtual assistant for government officers, built with an understanding of official procedures and capable of supporting administrative tasks through automation, with the aim of enhancing productivity and streamlining workflows.
Federal Minister Ahad Cheema appreciated the initiative, describing it as reflective of a shift toward modern governance practices, and directed stakeholders to further refine the system to improve usability, performance, and efficiency ahead of wider deployment. He said Pakistan is moving toward an Artificial Intelligence-driven digital governance model focused on transparency and improved public service delivery, adding that the Prime Minister’s Office System will support the National Digital Masterplan by strengthening coordination between ministries. Officials highlighted that citizen service platforms such as Asan Khidmat Markaz are already improving public access to services, and indicated that future reforms would expand digital tax systems and other technology-based governance tools as part of the same broader push toward a more accountable and digitally connected government structure.
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