The department of Pakistan studies aims at promoting a research excellence culture in the discipline of Pakistan studies. The department offers students multiple opportunities to develop broad perspectives on national security, economic, and development challenges and to engage with practitioners working to solve these problems. 

The department maintains contacts with other institutes, research centers and scholars across the globe. The department of Pakistan Studies also cooperates closely with several intergovernmental organizations, notably the parliament of Pakistan.

In short, this department aims to promote critical thinking and complex reasoning among the students for comprehensive and conceptual knowledge of Pakistan through applications of multiple approaches analyzing history, ideology, culture, geography, politics, economy, its strategic position and the part being played by it, in the regional and international affairs.