The Supreme Court of Pakistan has completed the digitisation of all pending case records, converting a total of 44,995 case files into searchable Optical Character Recognition format. The files were also barcoded and digitally catalogued for integration into the court’s Case Information Management System, marking a significant milestone in the institution’s ongoing modernisation drive.
The digitisation process was carried out alongside the court’s regular judicial work, with 11,999 of the digitised cases already decided during the same period, demonstrating that the new technology was successfully integrated into the court’s daily operations without disrupting case proceedings. An official handout issued by the Supreme Court stated that the institution has introduced a series of interconnected reforms that have transformed how cases are managed, judicial services are delivered, and institutional processes are administered, with the stated objective of making justice more accessible, transparent, efficient, and responsive.
The completed digitisation effort builds on a broader set of reforms the Supreme Court has pursued in recent years, including the introduction of an e-filing system across its registries in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi, and Quetta, allowing electronic submission of petitions, memos, judgments, and orders alongside traditional paper based filing. The court had earlier introduced a standardised case categorisation framework and a mandatory template form for filings, developed in consultation with the Committee of Advocates on Record, aimed at improving consistency and enabling more systematic case tracking from the point of filing.
The digitisation initiative also complements the Supreme Court’s adoption of multi location digital hearings, under which benches, counsel, and litigants have been able to participate in proceedings simultaneously from different cities without requiring physical travel to a single location. Fully digitised case files have already been used during such hearings, removing the need to retrieve physical records from branch registries and improving the speed and transparency of proceedings.
Officials said the digitisation exercise reflects the Supreme Court’s continued push to build a comprehensive digital justice ecosystem, one that combines digital case files, barcoded tracking, electronic filing, video link hearings, and integration with the Case Information Management System into a single, technology enabled framework. With all pending case records now digitised, the court is positioned to further streamline case retrieval, reduce reliance on physical record rooms, and support faster, more transparent judicial proceedings going forward as it continues expanding its broader institutional digitisation programme.
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