Ministry of Science and Technology (Pakistan)


The Ministry of Science and Technology is a Cabinet-level Ministry of the Government of Pakistan concerned with Science and Technology in Pakistan and in general, Pakistan's science policy, planning, coordination and directing of efforts to initiate and launch scientific and technological programs as well as projects aimed at economic development.
The ministry is coordinated by the Federal Minister for Science and Technology who is currently Chaudhry Fawad Hussain and is headquartered in Islamabad.

Mission

To achieve the security, prosperity and social cohesion of Pakistan through equitable and sustainable socio-economic progress using science, technology and innovation as central pillars of development in all sectors of economic activity.
The principle agenda of the MoST is building Pakistan's technological competence in the 21st century by leap forging into new markets, develop a larger pool of human resource for reverse brain drain and integrate the soft technology infrastructure into hard modern technological base, strengthen technology institutions, effective S & TR governance and enhance the capacity if indigenous innovation systems.

Federal Ministers/Ministers of State/Advisers/In-charge, Ministry of Science and Technology

The Scientific and Technological Research Division established in 1964 was initially responsible to administrate the National Science Council, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Committee. The status of S&TR Division was raised to the level of full-fledged Ministry of Science and Technology “MoST” in 1972.

NamePortfolioFromTo
Mr. Habibur RahmanFederal Minister for Education, Re-designated as Minister of Education & Scientific Research17.02.196017.04.1961
Mr. Akhtar HusainFederal Minister for Education & Scientific Research17.04.196101.03.1962
Lt. Gen.W.A. Burki

Federal Minister for Education & Scientific Research02.03.196208.06.1962
Mr. Ghulam FaruqueFederal Minister for Scientific and Technological Research01.01.196615.07.1967
Vice Admiral S.M. AhsanIncharge
M/o Scientific & Technological Research

05.04.196906.05.1969
Air Marshal M. Nur KhanIncharge Scientific & Technological Research

07.05.196903.08.1969
Mr. Muhammad Shamsul HuqFederal Minister for Education and Scientific Research04.08.196922.02.1971
Mr. Khurshid Hasan MeerMinister without portfolio Federal Minister for Science and Technology17.08.197322.10.1974
Mr. Abdul Hafiz PirzadaFederal Minister for Education, Science and Technology and Provincial Coordination

22.10.197405.02.1976
Mr. Hafeezullah CheemaMinister of State for Science and Technology

22.10.197409.01.1975
Shahzada Saeed-ur-Rashid AbbasiMinister of State for Science and Technology10.01.197505.02.1976
Malik Muhammad JafferMinister of State for Science and Technology05.02.197624.01.1977
Mr. Niaz Muhammad WassanFederal Minister for Science and Technology

30.03.197705.07.1977
Mr. Mohammamd Arshad ChaudhriFederal Minister for Science and Technology

27.08.197821.04.1979
Mr. Hamid Nasir ChattaFederal Minister for Science and Technology

28.01.198631.05.1986
Mir Haji Tareen,Federal Minister for Science and Technology

28.09.198620.12.1986
Malik Muhammad Naeem KhanFederal Minister for Science and Technology

15.05.198829.05.1988
Chaudhry Nisar Ali KhanFederal Minister for Science and Technology

09.06.198801.12.1988
Mr. Jahangir BadrFederal Minister for Science and Technology

04.12.198820.09.1989
Mr. Javed Jabbar,Federal Minister for Science and Technology

20.09.198906.08.1990
Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani,Federal Minister for Science and Technology

13.08.199006.11.1990
Choudhri Hamid Nasir Chatta,Federal Minister for Science and Technology

09.11.199010.09.1991
Mian Muhammad Zaman,Minister of State for Science and Technology

9.06.199118.07.1993
Mr. Illahi Bukhsh Soomro

Federal Minister for Science and Technology

10.09.199109.06.1993
Lt. Gen. Muhammad Shafiq,Federal Minister for Science and Technology23.07.199319.10.1993
Haji Muhammad Nawaz Khokhar,Federal Minister for Science and Technology31.07.199605.11.1996
Syeda Abida Hussain,Federal Minister for Science and Technology

5.11.199615.12.1996
Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman,Federal Minister for Science and Technology4.03.200023.11.2002
Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman

Adviser to the Prime Minister
Federal Minister for Science and Technology		24.11.2002

25.08.2004
Ch. Nouraiz Shakoor Khan,

Federal Minister for Science and Technology

3.09.200415.11.2007
Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha., H.I., S.I.Federal Minister for Science and Technology

16-11-200725-03-2008
Ms. Tehmina Daultana

Federal Minister for Science and Technology

31.03.200812/5/2008
Mr. Mohammad Azam Khan Swati,Federal Minister for Science and Technology

29.01.2009
 		14.12.2010
Pir Aftab Hussain Shah JilaniFederal Minister for Science and Technology

14.12.201012.02.2011
Mir Changez Khan JamaliFederal Minister for Science and Technology

12.02.201116.03.2013
Dr. Sania Nishtar,Federal Minister for Science and Technology

04.04.2013
 		05.06.2013
Engr. Khurram Dastgir Khan,Minister of state for Science and Technology

07.06.2013
 		22.06.2013
Mr. Zahid HamidFederal Minister for Science and Technology

22.06.2013
 		21.11.2014
Rana Tanveer HussainFederal Minister for Science and Technology

17-12-201428.07.2017
Mir Dostain Khan Domki

Minister of State for Science and Technology

15-09-2017
Rana Tanveer Hussain

Federal Minister for Science and Technology

17-12-201431-05-2018
Mr. Muhammad Yusuf Shaikh

Federal Minister for Science and Technology

06-06-201818-08-2018
Muhammad Azam Khan Swati

Federal Minister for Science and Technology

05-10-201806-12-2018
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain

Federal Minister for Science and Technology

19-04-2019


Organizations

The following organizations are situated under the Ministry of Science and Technology:-
The ministry launched a lunar observatory website in 2019 aimed at to show the citizens about the Islamic events, holidays, and primarily crescent associated with lunar calendar dates. The website claims to have modern features such as predetermine the future-dates or arrival of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and other events based on scientific evidences and observations through moon sighting.