‘Urdu AI model Buraq to keep data at home’

On payments, the State Bank's Raast instant payment rail turns an AI model's identification of a qualifying household into delivery.On data, WASL, the national exchange layer of the Digital Public Infrastructure stack built under the World Bank-supported Digital Economy Enhancement Project, lets institutions share data with every transaction authenticated, encrypted and logged.

A citizen Super App and the National Open Data Ecosystem sit on top.

On safeguards, the National Data Governance Policy sets a single rulebook for classifying, sharing, protecting and publishing public data.Governments that skip the foundations get pilots that never scale and systems citizens do not trust, she said.

AI is the last layer, not the first.

'Urdu AI model Buraq to keep data at home' Our Correspondent | Updated 56 seconds ago | Minister says identity, Raast & WASL exchange must come before AI can scale.