| ABM | Anti-Ballistic Missile |
| AC | Alternating Current/Air Conditioning |
| AEC | Atomic Energy Commission |
| ALT | Altitude |
| AM | Ante Maridiem (Before Noon/Midday) |
| AMP | Ampere |
| APTEC | All Pakistan Technology Engineers Council |
| ATM | Automated Teller Machine (Banking) |
| AW | Atomic Weight/ Asia Watch |
| ADH | Anti-diuretic Hormone |
| AWACS | Airborne Warning and Control System |
| AMU | Atomic Mass Unit |
| AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| ATP | Adenosine Tri Phosphate |
| BTU | British thermal Unit |
| BASIC | Beginner‘s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BDS | Bachelor Of Dental Surgery/ Bomb Disposal Squad |
| BP | Blood Pressure/ Boiling Point/ Blue Print |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| BCG | Bacillus Calmette Guerin |
| BOT | Build, Operate and Transfer/Botulinum Toxin |
| C/A | Current Account |
| CFC | Chloro Fluoro Carbon |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CRO | Cathode Ray Oscilloscope |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| CCTV | Closed-Circuit Television |
| CAA | Civil Aviation Authority |
| CABB | Centre Of Agricultural Biochemistry And Biotechnology |
| CAD | ComputerAided Design |
| Cal | Calorie |
| CD | Compact Disc/ Civil Defence/ Community Development |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CECP | Cotton Export Corporation Of Pakistan |
| CHASNUPP | Chashma Nuclear Power Plant |
| CMCC | China Mobile Communications Corporation |
| COM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| COMSAT | Communications Satellite Corporation |
| COMSTECH | Council Of Scientific And Technology Cooperation Of Islamic Conference |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation |
| CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| CT-Scan | Computerised Axial Tomography Scanning |
| CNG | Compressed Natural Gas |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| DBS | Data Base Server/ Direct Broadcast Satellite |
| DVD | Dynamic Versatile Disc |
| EMF | Electro Motive force |
| ETT | Educational Telecommunications and Technology/ European Transaction on Telecommunication |
| ECAT | Engineering Colleges Admission Test |
| EDB | Engineering Development Board |
| EEG | Electroencephalogram |
| ENERCON | Energy Conservation Centre |
| EPA | Energy Protection Agency |
| EPD | Energy Protection Department |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESRO | European Space Research Organisation |
| ECG | Electro Cardio Gram |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FCPS | Fellow Of The Royal College Of Physicians And Surgeons |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| FMCT | Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty |
| FRCS | Fellow Of The Royal College Of Surgeons |
| GeV | Giga Electro Volt |
| GUT | Grand Unified Theory |
| GHz | Gigahertz |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| HIV | Human Immune Deficiency Virus |
| HTML | Hypertext Mark-Up Language |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HST | High Speed Technology/ High Speed Train (in UK)/Hubble Space Telescope |
| HDL | Hardware Description Language |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency (UN) |
| IBM | International Business Machine |
| IC | Integrated Circuit/ Intelligence Corps |
| ICBM | Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| INSTRAW | International Research And Training Institute For The Advancement Of Women |
| INTELSAC | International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium |
| INTELSAT | International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation |
| IRBM | Intermediate Range ballistic Missile |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITB | Information Technology Board |
| JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| KANUPP | Karachi Nuclear Power Plant |
| KAPCO | Kot Adu Power Company |
| kHz | Kilohertz |
| KV | Kilo Volt |
| kW | Kilowatt |
| KWh | Kilo Watt Hour |
| LPG | Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
| LASER | Light Amplification by Stimulated emission of Radiation |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDL | Low Density Lipoprotein |
| LED | Light emitting Diode |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LONAR | Long Range Navigation |
| MAF | Million Acre Feet |
| MCV | Mean Corpuscular Volume |
| MASER | Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| MeV | Mega Electron Volt/ Million Electron Volt/ Multi-experiment Viewer |
| MCAT | Medical Colleges Admission Test |
| MDS | Master In Dental Surgery |
| MNP | Mobile Number Probability |
| MRBM | Medium Range Ballistic Missile |
| MRCP | Member Of Royal College Of Physicians |
| MRCS | Member Of Royal College Of Surgeons |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MS | Medical Superintendent |
| MSN | Microsoft Network |
| MW | Megawatt |
| NADRA | National Database And Registration Authority |
| NEPRA | National Electric Power Regulatory Authority |
| NM | Nautical Mile |
| NMD | National Missile Defence |
| NPT | Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty |
| NRA | Nuclear Regulatory Authority |
| NWD | Nation Wide Dialling |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol/ Normal Temperature and Pressure |
| NPN | Negative Positive Negative |
| OGRA | Oil And Gas Regulatory Authority |
| OGDC | Oil And Gas Development Corporation |
| PVC | Poly vinyl Chloride |
| PTFE | Poly Tetra Fluoro Ethylene |
| pm | Post Meridian |
| PEMRA | Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority |
| PTA | Pakistan Telecommunication Authority |
| PNP | Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase |
| RBC | Red Blood Cells/Corpuscles |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RQ | Respiratory Quotient |
| RADAR | Radio Detection And Ranging |
| SONAR | Sound Navigation And Ranging |
| SARS | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| STP | Standard Temperature And Pressure/Shielded Twisted Pair/Sodium Tripolyphosphate/Spanning Tree Protocol |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| SLV | Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SNGPL | Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited |
| SONAR | Sound Navigation And Ranging |
| SSGPL | Sui Southern Gas Pipeline Limited |
| STD | Subscriber‘s Trunk Dialling |
| STM | Subscriber Identification |
| SUPARCO | Space And Upper Atmosphere Research Committee (Pakistan) |
| TNT | Tri Nitro Toluen |
| TB | Tubercle Bacillus/ Tuberculosis |
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
| UNAEC | United Nations Atomic Energy Commission |
| UNESCO | United Nations Education, Scientific And Cultural Organisation |
| VCD | Video Compact Disc |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WAPDA | Water And Power Development Authority |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| WMD | Weapons Of Mass Destruction |
| WWF | World Wildlife Fund |
| ZPG | Zero Population Growth |