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South Asia

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: sovereign compute, data rules and the algorithmic state.

Dhaka Puts AI-Generated Content Into Its Cyber Law Draft

Bangladesh's draft Cyber Protection (Amendment) Act names AI-generated content in its defamation offence and adds a ten-year 'rumour' crime. Four months after a cabinet committee took the draft, the ICT Division's draft-laws page lists no text and editors want courts in the loop.

Pakistan Promises an Urdu Model and Sovereign Compute

Islamabad told a World Bank summit it is building an Urdu language model and buying sovereign compute. Neither announcement came with a tender, a budget line, a named builder or a date. Here is what each claim rests on.

Seven Days to Bid for India’s Sovereign GPUs

C-DAC opens a seven-day window on 22 October to empanel providers for up to 10,000 sovereign AI compute units. The entry bar is high, and New Delhi's promised data-centre policy still exists only as a ministerial remark.

Delhi’s Judges Give Ministries 72 Hours. SEBI Vets the Avatars

Indian courts are ordering ministries to have deepfake sites blocked within 72 hours, and SEBI now treats AI avatars as celebrities whose adverts need pre-approval. Judges and a market regulator are writing India's synthetic-persona rules before MeitY does.

India Drops the Light Touch on AI

On one day New Delhi promised a regulation-focused AI consultation paper and privately told platforms to label misleading content. The move from voluntary guidelines to rule by advisory leaves one question open: under what legal authority?

DigiLocker Opens to Banks and Gets an AI Assistant

New Delhi wants private intermediaries to plug banks, insurers, colleges and hospitals into its document wallet, and is building an assistant that fetches and shares papers on request. The safeguards are strict on paper; the consent questions are not settled.

South Asia’s 7 Per Cent Problem

The World Bank says only 7 per cent of South Asian jobs face high AI exposure without human complementarity. The figure is real, carried over from 2025, and cannot be set beside the Bank's other headline numbers.

Pakistan Writes Rules for the Algorithmic State

Pakistan's draft National Data Governance Policy would give citizens a right to human review of automated decisions and force ministries to register high-risk AI. It arrives before the country has a data protection law.

India’s Sovereign AI Bet Meets the Price of Silicon

The IndiaAI Mission has bought its way to tens of thousands of subsidised GPUs and twenty home-grown models. Rising chip and memory prices now make utilisation, pricing and energy, not headline capacity, the numbers that matter.

Seeing the State in Motion

Government is not a single building but a moving system of tiers, departments and languages. One issue has many owners and many voices, and a state that reads only its dominant language sees only part of itself.