اردو ڈیجیٹل اصطلاحات کا قومی منصوبہ
An operational workbench supporting the National Working Group on Urdu Digital and Artificial Intelligence Terminology, constituted by the Pakistan Digital Authority to establish nationally standardized Urdu terminology for digital government services and artificial intelligence, grounded in authoritative scholarship and developed through a Five-Pillar Source Framework.
The National Working Group on Urdu Digital and Artificial Intelligence Terminology is a Pakistan Digital Authority initiative to establish a unified, standardized, and practically usable Urdu terminology for digital government services and artificial intelligence.
The absence of a coherent Urdu digital lexicon has fragmented citizen-facing interfaces, hindered AI system localization, and limited Urdu's standing as a language of technology. The Working Group addresses this gap by producing nationally endorsed terminology across five phases over a five-month initial cycle, beginning with citizen-facing digital services and progressing through artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and policy domains, with an institutional-continuity track toward a permanent national terminology function.
Every term is developed through a Five-Pillar Source Framework that grounds terminology in authoritative English sources, Urdu linguistic scholarship, and Arabic, Persian, and Turkish reference pillars, ensuring cultural depth alongside technical accuracy.
جب زبان ڈیجیٹل ہو، تو قوم بھی ڈیجیٹل ہوتی ہے
Every term in the Working Group is developed through a rigorous methodology that grounds Urdu terminology in authoritative international sources, the language's own scholarly tradition, and the complementary heritage of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish terminology practice.
Primary Source
Authoritative international glossaries from which digital and AI terminology is curated. This defines what the Working Group translates from.
Linguistic Foundation
Existing Urdu terminology corpora consulted for linguistic continuity, preserving prior scholarly work rather than duplicating it.
Scholarly Heritage
Strategic benchmarking reflecting Urdu's deep scholarly and scientific Arabic inheritance, particularly for technical and administrative vocabulary.
Literary Heritage
Recognition of Urdu's deep literary and administrative Persian inheritance, a source of register, elegance, and established terminological patterns.
Methodological Peer
A methodological peer from the Islamic world whose language reform offers a successful modernization framework worth studying and adapting.
The National Working Group on Urdu Digital and Artificial Intelligence Terminology, constituted by the Pakistan Digital Authority. Its composition is set out below as notified.
Patron-in-Chief
Strategic patronage, presiding over meetings, and formal endorsement of the Working Group's outputs.
Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Government of Pakistan
As Patron-in-Chief, the Honourable Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication provides strategic patronage to the work of the Working Group, presides over its meetings, and accords formal endorsement to its outputs in furtherance of the Government's national digital transformation agenda.
Convener
Guides all deliberations, discussions, and formal outputs of the Working Group.
Convener, National Working Group · Expert Advisor, Pakistan Digital Authority
Expert Advisor, Pakistan Digital Authority. Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience across fintech, digital government, and emerging technology ecosystems in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Appointed as Convener of the National Working Group.
Members
All Members hold equal standing in matters of substantive deliberation. Subject-matter experts in Urdu linguistics, literature, translation, and applied technology.
Chairperson, Pakistan Academy of Letters
Distinguished scholar of Urdu Literature with over 36 years of academic and research experience. Former Dean, Faculty of Languages and Literature, International Islamic University, Islamabad. Author and editor of 19 books and over 60 peer-reviewed international articles. Focal Person (Pakistan), UNESCO World Atlas of Languages.
Senior Scholar & Former Federal Secretary
Senior Scholar, Translator, and Former Federal Secretary. Translator of more than ten books across Urdu and English. Former Secretary to the Federal Cabinet and Federal Secretary for three Ministries. Recipient of Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2019) for scholarly contributions. Currently a Member of the Governing Body, National Book Foundation.
Founder, Zinda Kitabain Initiative
Engineer, Author, and Founder of the Zinda Kitabain Initiative. Author and compiler of 55 books since 2012. Through Zinda Kitabain, he has revived and republished 382 rare and out-of-print Urdu works, including the most comprehensive republished collection of Urdu autobiographies from the subcontinent.
Member (Technical), Telecom Appellate Tribunal
Member (Technical), Telecom Appellate Tribunal, Ministry of Law and Justice. Former Director General (Technical), PTA. Over 30 years in ICT engineering; represented Pakistan at ITU and UNESCO. Founder of YourMunshi, Pakistan's first AI-powered legal assistant.
Chairman & CEO, Technomen Kinetics
Chairman and CEO, Technomen Kinetics. Former Head of Reliability Engineering, NASA Cape Canaveral, USA. PhD in Artificial Intelligence (USA, 1989). Chairman, SNPC and SNPC II.
Chief Transformation Officer, Qarshi International
Chief Transformation Officer, Qarshi International. Former Director General, NADRA (2002 to 2006), where he led national IT consolidation and the country-wide network build-out. Over 35 years of senior technology leadership across Government, Banking, and Telecommunications, including CIO roles at PTCL, Punjab Information Technology Board, and Warid Telecom International. Recipient of the NCR National IT Excellence Award (2005).
Constituting Authority & Secretariat
The Pakistan Digital Authority constitutes the Working Group and serves as its Secretariat. These roles sit outside the Working Group's membership.
Chairperson, Pakistan Digital Authority · Constituting Authority
As Chairperson of the Pakistan Digital Authority, Dr. Sohail Munir constituted the National Working Group under Notification No. PDA/NOTIFICATION/007/2026. Formal outputs of the Working Group are adopted and published under the authority of the Pakistan Digital Authority.
Coordinator · Pakistan Digital Authority Secretariat
Serves as the coordination focal point between the Pakistan Digital Authority Secretariat and the Working Group, supporting communications, scheduling, and formal outreach to government entities, academic institutions, and language bodies.
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The three governance documents that guide the methodology, standards, and source authorities of the Working Group.
Version 2.4
Charter document defining the Working Group's mandate, governance structure, objectives, and five-phase delivery framework.
Aligned to Notification 007/2026
Version 1.1.1
Editorial, typographic, and formatting standards for all Working Group outputs, including Unicode handling and Nastaliq rendering.
Living document
Version 1.2
Consolidated reference of authoritative English source glossaries and Urdu linguistic foundation materials supporting the Five-Pillar Framework.
Living document
