Pakistan Science Foundation(PSF) is the apex body for promotion and funding of scientific and technological research and science popularization in the country. PSF has two subsidiary organizations i.e. Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) and Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Center (PASTIC).

The Foundation functions as a financing agency for the establishment of comprehensive scientific and technological information dissemination centers, promotion of basic and fundamental research in the universities and other institutions/ centers, establishment of science centers, clubs, museums, herbaria and planetaria, promotion of scientific societies, organization of periodical science conferences, symposia and seminars, exchange of visits of scientists and technologists with other countries and grant of awards, prizes and fellowships to individuals engaged in developing processes of consequence to the economy of the country .