Pakistan PM Shehbaz pushes AI and robotics in Daanish schools

Pakistan’s move to hard‑wire AI and robotics into the Daanish school curriculum is a reminder that the race to AGI is also a race to talent. By tying elite public boarding schools for low income students directly to computing and automation skills, Islamabad is effectively treating AI literacy as a strategic resource, not a niche elective. If implemented seriously, this sort of pipeline can seed a domestic pool of engineers and operators who are comfortable working with models and robots from an early age, rather than importing that capability wholesale.

For the global AI landscape, this is one more data point in a broader pattern, middle income states using education policy to avoid being permanently locked into the “AI user” tier. What matters next is execution, whether the Ministry of IT can actually deliver relevant curricula, teacher training and hardware rather than a thin layer of buzzwords. Still, for a country that has already articulated a national AI policy, anchoring that agenda in concrete school systems is a notable step. It reflects an understanding that equitable access to AI era skills is as important to long term competitiveness as signing cloud contracts or announcing model partnerships.