To assess and examine the needs and requirements of research in the history and culture of the Muslims of South Asia, Muslim Freedom Movement and the Islamic State of Pakistan;

To identify areas or aspects in these fields and conduct research thereon;

To seek, acquire, publish and preserve source material (private papers newspapers, rare books, documents and pamphlets, etc.) relevant to the above fields;

To arrange interviews with important persons who can recall significant incidents relating to the two fields mentioned above and to preserve a record of such conversations for current and further use by historians and scholars;
 

To publish a bi-annual Journal of high academic quality;
 

To sponsor and commission scholarly works by persons not on the staff of the Institute;
 

To reprint (with some editorial annotations) major and minor classics relating to the two fields mentioned at above which are now completely unavailable or are very scarce;
 

To make provision for research and advisory services and with these objectives enter into agreements with other institutions or with public bodies under prescribed conditions;
 

To co-operate with International Research Bodies in respect of history and culture;
 

To study History and Culture of Pakistan in wider context of Central Asian and neighboring countries.