Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre
government organization in Islamabad, Pakistan
The Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre (PASTIC) is a research support and premier national organization of the government of Pakistan with its prime focus on scientific academic principles and research and the dissemination of scientific studies and information technology. It is principally focused on providing academic assistance to scientists, researchers, academics, industrialists, entrepreneurs, planners, and policymakers, among others. It also contains information about science, engineering and technology for research and development of technology.
An expanded project of the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) and a subsidiary of the Pakistan Science Foundation, the PASTIC is headquartered at the Quaid-i-Azam University campus, Islamabad. Its six branches are located in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and Quetta. The PASTIC consists of a database of full-text science and technology documents, publications of the Pakistan Journal of Computer and Information System (PJCIS) and secondary journals of abstracts which are available in ten academic disciplines. It also serves as a database of patents, bibliographic information, compilation of Union catalogues and directories, and reprographic printing services grouped into mimeographing, photocopier and microfilming.
History
The Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre was established in 1974 under the UNESCO-assisted organisation the Pakistan National Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre (PANSDOC) which works under the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR). PASTIC was later transferred from PCSIR to Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) and started serving as a subsidiary of PSF. It also provide financial assistance to the National Digital Archive of Pakistani.
PASTIC plays central role in developing networking of journals and publishers communities with objectives of preservation of national research content.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre” is government organization in Islamabad, Pakistan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pakistan, Scientific and Technological, not as a finished interpretation.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104480501. Authority coordinates are 33.750, 73.136. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974.
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