The ORIC aims to develop a cell within the university responsible for strengthening university research and quality and have upgraded capabilities for research collaboration, fund-raising, dissemination, and commercialization.

• Design research policies for the university.
• Capacity building of faculty by arranging seminars, workshops, training on various topics compatible with the needs of the community, encourage potential scientists to conduct funded research, and engage in research activities that facilitate ways to transform knowledge into the economy.
• Encourage collaborations of departments with international universities to conduct joint research.
• Integration of research activities at all levels and centers, departments, institutes, and postgraduate colleges of the university.
• Promote a multi-disciplinary research environment within the university.
• Develop an inter-university research program for promoting research collaboration between Gandhara University Peshawar and other national and international universities and research organizations.
• Identify industry opportunities and reduce the gap between academia and industry by creating a research linkage between the two.
• Prepare business plans for commercialization of research projects.
• Reform the quality measurement system so that multiple measures will measure research publication quality, and, in addition, a due accord is given to leadership in research, solving meaningful problems, developing research capability, mentoring, collaboration, dissemination, and commercialization.
• Promote mentoring and other practices to develop research capabilities by explicitly developing and supporting mentoring and collaboration practices and enabling their dissemination through technology.

• Encourage the publishing of the subject journals.

• ORIC is responsible for aiding and guidance to the faculty members/PhD scholars in the research projects and responsible to interact with Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, and other funding/donor agencies in connection to above listed functions/activities.