Why land administration is strategically important and challenging especially for developing countries such as Pakistan, what exactly are the barriers and how geospatial technologies, literature as well as best practices related to land administration can help to break the barriers? To address these questions, this paper investigates land administration in the country to identify barriers and their nature such as policy, legal, economic, political, institutional and technical that are being faced at various levels of governments from national to provincial. We make use of questionnaire and semi structured interviews of the experts involved in land administration as instrument to collect and validate data in addition to study the latest reports by World Bank, US-Aid, UNDP-Pakistan, Asian Development Bank and FAO etc. We then critically review relevant literature in order to determine the existence of the identified barriers and their frequency of occurrence in other countries as well. This helps to discover gap between theory theories and practices. The literature review coupled with study of best practices is benefited to gain knowledge about resolution of the issues. Finally, the paper presents recommendations to be adopted by Government of Pakistan to implement successful land administration and management system in the country. The paper finds that although Government of Pakistan has vision to setup the state of the art system for land administration in the country but still it is far away from the reality. The paper concludes that sustainable development and poverty alleviation is just a dream without an effective, efficient and fit for purpose Land Administration System (LAS).