The Ministry of Law and Justice and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, with funding from UK International Development, convened a two-day technical workshop in Islamabad to develop secure NSOR APIs for real-time data exchange as the National Sex Offenders Register expands nationwide.
Technical and operational representatives from police, prosecution, prisons, the National Prosecution Bureau, NADRA, PITB, KPITB and other justice-sector institutions took part, examining system architecture, data flows and institutional access pathways required for reliable integration. Delegates provided structured technical and governance inputs designed to feed directly into the Phase I national NSOR gap analysis.
Participants emphasised secure API-based integration to improve interoperability and performance while strengthening data protection. Discussions covered audit trails, logging and governance mechanisms to ensure responsible, survivor-sensitive handling of information and to support timely, reliable information exchange across agencies.
The workshop produced initial priorities for an API framework and a preliminary roadmap to guide future system integration. Strengthening real-time data exchange through robust NSOR APIs is seen as critical to enhancing institutional coordination, improving risk management and supporting Pakistan’s efforts to prevent sexual reoffending, particularly in cases of child sexual exploitation and abuse, while laying the technical and governance foundations for Phase II integration.
