News from Pakistan
79,672 news articles from publishers in Pakistan, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is dunya.com.pk with 21,016 articles, 26.4% of the total, followed by www.express.pk, arynews.tv. By language it splits into English (69,645), Urdu (9,966), sd (45) and 1 more. Daily volume averages about 1,216 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 1,675 on 2026-09-04.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=PK&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=PK&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Pakistan articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=PK&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T16:40 | سہارنپور مسجد تنازعہ میں اے ایس آئی کی انٹری، انہدامی کارروائی کے بعد دریافت کنویں کا لیا نمونہ | www.qaumiawaz.com |
2026-09-07T16:22 | <![CDATA[Mustafa Kamal decides to fill technical staff shortage at Islamabad’s PIMS hospital | arynews.tv |
2026-09-07T16:20 | روسی جیل میں قید ہندوستانی شہری کی اہلیہ نے ’فیس بک‘ پر ویڈیو جاری کر حکومت سے مانگی مدد | www.qaumiawaz.com |
2026-09-07T16:07 | روس میں ہولناک برفانی تودہ گرنے سے 11 کوہ پیماؤں کی موت، 6 لاپتہ | www.qaumiawaz.com |
2026-09-07T16:03 | <![CDATA[Jamaat Islami and govt to hold talks in Islamabad]]> | arynews.tv |
2026-09-07T15:56 | <![CDATA[ATC hands over Hamad Azhar to police on 20 day physical remand]]> | arynews.tv |
2026-09-07T15:46 | <![CDATA[Qatar says Gulf cannot rely on US alone for security]]> | arynews.tv |
2026-09-07T15:42 | Families of seamen held hostage by Somali pirates arrested during protest in Karachi | timesofkarachi.pk |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
dunya.com.pk | 21,016 | 26.4% | query |
www.express.pk | 9,760 | 12.3% | query |
arynews.tv | 8,491 | 10.7% | query |
www.aaj.tv | 6,529 | 8.2% | query |
urdupoint.com | 4,964 | 6.2% | query |
www.geo.tv | 4,603 | 5.8% | query |
jang.com.pk | 2,969 | 3.7% | query |
www.dawn.com | 2,858 | 3.6% | query |
en.dailypakistan.com.pk | 2,624 | 3.3% | query |
www.thenews.com.pk | 2,328 | 2.9% | query |
www.samaa.tv | 1,721 | 2.2% | query |
ur.abna24.com | 1,544 | 1.9% | query |
tribune.com.pk | 1,130 | 1.4% | query |
dnanews.com.pk | 797 | 1.0% | query |
ur.mehrnews.com | 792 | 1.0% | query |
dailykhabrain.com.pk | 736 | 0.9% | query |
pni.net.pk | 543 | 0.7% | query |
www.pakgold.net | 514 | 0.6% | query |
dunyanews.tv | 506 | 0.6% | query |
www.qaumiawaz.com | 477 | 0.6% | query |
www.techjuice.pk | 472 | 0.6% | query |
dawatmedia24.com | 471 | 0.6% | query |
mashriqquetta.com.pk | 426 | 0.5% | query |
pakistancurrent.com | 335 | 0.4% | query |
www.pakistantimes.com | 319 | 0.4% | query |
Languages published in Pakistan
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
Domain zones used by Pakistan publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| pk | Pakistan | 44,346 | 55.7% |
| tv | media | 22,345 | 28.0% |
| com | global commercial | 12,416 | 15.6% |
| net | global network | 540 | 0.7% |
| news | news publications | 20 | 0.0% |
| co | Colombia | 5 | 0.0% |
| ngo | ngo | 1 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 404 | |
2026-09-06 | 1,448 | |
2026-09-05 | 1,615 | |
2026-09-04 | 1,675 | |
2026-09-03 | 1,235 | |
2026-09-02 | 1,453 | |
2026-09-01 | 897 | |
2026-08-31 | 1,003 | |
2026-08-30 | 1,077 | |
2026-08-29 | 1,576 | |
2026-08-28 | 1,413 | |
2026-08-27 | 1,505 | |
2026-08-26 | 833 | |
2026-08-25 | 1,041 |
Combine with other filters
# Pakistan, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=PK&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Pakistan, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=PK&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Pakistan, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=PK&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"