Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Umar Saif has announced the creation of the first-ever organization IRADA linking defence, industry and academia.
In a tweet, he said that “after four months of effort we have finally created IRADA (Pakistan’s equivalent of DARPA), linking the Research and Development needs of the defence sector with our universities and industry”.The tweet further stated that IRADA will be hosted at NUST and will have an independent board and funding to carry out state-of-the-art research and product development critical for our national security and economy.