- To produce historical knowledge
- To impart archaeological and ethnographical education in the framework of multi-disciplinary and thematic approaches
- To conduct archaeological exploration, excavation, promotion and preservation of cultural heritage of Pakistan
- To produce trained professionals to be inducted for teaching and research in different institutions of archaeology, museology and Asian history and culture
- To search out convergences and divergences in Pakistani culture in the framework of continuity and change.
- To preserve the cultural heritage of Pakistan by its reclamation.
- To lead the people, especially Asian, towards a new world of progress and development by pooling the intellectual resources of the scholars and academics related to Asia.
- A regular bi-annual journal under the title of Journal of Asian Civilizations is being published aiming at the promotion of research vis-à-vis Asian civilizations.
- To publish monographs and books.
- To acquire books for Dr .A.H. Dani Memorial Library through donations, exchange and purchase.
- To hold national and international seminars/ conferences/ workshops/ symposiums on different themes of Asian studies.
- Collaboration with UNESCO & other International Agencies as well as foreign universities and institutes.
- To award degrees in higher studies.
- To hold exhibitions of cultural heritage of Pakistan as well as foreign countries.
