Islamabad AI Declaration: On Sovereign, Responsible, and Capability-Driven Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Declaration of nine principles for a sovereign, private-sector-led approach to AI, published by Pakistan's Ministry of IT and Telecommunication. It keeps decisions of public consequence under accountable human oversight, deploys AI where it demonstrably improves outcomes and scales it only after proof of impact, governs national, state and citizen data under Pakistan's laws, requires AI systems in government that affect public rights or critical state functions to be explainable, auditable and proportionate to risk, and calls for coordinated national AI governance that avoids fragmentation and vendor dependency.

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Scope

Borderline scope Existing record has no scope note; a declaration of principles for government AI use with accountability and auditability duties, included as core by the register's rules on intergovernmental and national declarations.

Status notes

Issued in Islamabad on 9 Feb 2026 and published on MoITT's website under 'AI Declaration'. Besides its principles for government AI, the declaration commits Pakistan to invest in national talent, enable responsible innovation through controlled environments, develop sovereign compute capacity, and engage in international partnerships on interoperable standards and ethical norms.

Sources

Open the official source https://moitt.gov.pk/Detail/YmY4ZGFkODktYzI5Yy00OGUxLWE4ZDEtZDJjNzcwMWZhZGU1

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History

1. 2026-10-18scope_note: – → Existing record has no scope note; a declaration of principles for government AI — pipeline run 2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 (recheck), candidate PK-022026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18notes: Issued in Islamabad on 9 Feb 2026, shortly before the India-AI Impact Summit. Li → Issued in Islamabad on 9 Feb 2026 and published on MoITT's website under 'AI Dec — version 1's link to the India-AI Impact Summit rests on no stored file and was removed; its scope remark ('included because ...') belongs to the scope reasoning, not the notes; principles 07 to 09 summarised2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18safety_topics: ["human oversight", "accountability & liability", "public-sector use", "transpar → ["human oversight", "accountability & liability", "public-sector use", "transpar — added international cooperation: principle 09 commits Pakistan to international partnerships on interoperable standards and ethical norms2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18summary: National policy declaration with nine principles for Pakistan's AI approach. The → Declaration of nine principles for a sovereign, private-sector-led approach to A — rewritten closer to the text: principle 03 (deploy where AI demonstrably improves outcomes, scale after proof of impact), principle 04 covers national, state and citizen data, and principle 05 applies to government AI affecting public rights or critical state functions2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Pakistan National AI Policy 2025 Pakistan · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication (MoITT), Government of Pakistan. Islamabad AI Declaration: On Sovereign, Responsible, and Capability-Driven Artificial Intelligence. 2026-02-09. https://moitt.gov.pk/Detail/YmY4ZGFkODktYzI5Yy00OGUxLWE4ZDEtZDJjNzcwMWZhZGU1. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/PK-02/2026-10-18/official.html retrieved 2026-10-18 00:48:24 UTC, SHA-256 957b2bcdc826fe84eec30a5fa256edb2eb3505ffb6af1ebcb708ef77fed6e4e4. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record PK-02.

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