The information systems in Pakistan’s public sector are predominantly paper based and an elaborate filing system is in place, as a remnant of the British colonial paraphernalia. These files remain under the custody of state functionaries who exercise a fairly arbitrary control over them, deciding the extent and nature of public access to them. This gives rise to a lack of accountability as well as proliferation of rent seeking behavior among the public sector functionaries. This land record system, which is basically aimed at putting in place a mechanism of land revenue assessment and collection, is prevalent all over Pakistan. The rapid access and transparency of the land records is a must to give an impetus to investments in land in terms of agricultural production, residential development etc., as it will facilitate the process of transactions, credit, transfer and mortgage.