Pakistan’s Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication, Shaza Fatima Khawaja, met with a high-level delegation from Meta led by Sarim Aziz, Director of South and Central Asia Public Policy, to explore opportunities for advancing digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector. The discussions focused on promoting AI-driven governance, service delivery, and capacity building aligned with the government’s Digital Pakistan vision.
Minister Khawaja emphasized Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s commitment to a cashless economy and building a digitally empowered society where emerging technologies are key drivers of economic transformation. Meta briefed the minister on its latest AI developments, including LLaMA open-source models, generative AI applications for public services, and local language AI models such as Urdu.
