Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) and the Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) have provided 20 e-gaming systems to five public schools in Islamabad at a total cost of Rs. 9.10 million, according to information placed before the National Assembly. The figures work out to about Rs. 455,000 for each system and Rs. 1.82 million for each school, which makes the distribution one of the more concrete examples of public spending on e-sports at the school level. The disclosure gives a clear picture of how much was spent and how many schools benefited, although the information available does not describe the specifications of the equipment or the way in which the schools are expected to use it.
Alongside the supply of equipment to schools, the federal government has formed a Task Force on E-Sports under the Prime Minister. The task force has been notified by the Ministry of Information Technology and is headed by the Chairman of the Prime Minister Youth Program. Its stated tasks are to draft a National E-Sports Policy, to set up a National E-Sports Federation and to hold a National Championship. These three items cover the rules under which the sector will operate, the body that will represent it and the competition through which players can be identified, and together they form the framework that the government has described for organized e-sports in the country.
The plans for a policy and a federation are not new, since they had already been reported in 2025 when the government announced steps to give e-sports formal recognition. The information that is now before the National Assembly shows who leads the effort and what it is meant to produce, but it does not state whether the policy has been approved, whether the federation has been established or whether a date has been fixed for the championship. The status of each of these three tasks therefore remains an open question, and the next step is for the government to say how far the work of the task force has progressed.
The two developments sit side by side, with equipment already placed in five schools while the structures that would govern the sector are still being prepared. For students in the five Islamabad schools, the 20 systems provide access to e-gaming facilities within their institutions. For the wider sector, the National E-Sports Policy, the National E-Sports Federation and the National Championship are the elements that will decide how players, teams and organizers work under official recognition. The cost of Rs. 9.10 million for 20 systems, at about Rs. 455,000 each, is the figure against which the results of the school programme are likely to be judged.
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