News from Pakistan
115,474 news articles from publishers in Pakistan, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is urdupoint.com with 25,970 articles, 22.5% of the total, followed by www.express.pk, arynews.tv. By language it splits into English (78,170), Urdu (37,057), sd (230) and 1 more. Daily volume averages about 1,387 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 1,856 on 2026-10-21.
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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-23T01:00 | Asia Needs $1 Trillion Annually for Energy Security Amid Rising Demand | www.pakgold.net |
2026-10-23T01:00 | ایشیا کو توانائی کی فراہمی کے لیے سالانہ 1 ٹریلین ڈالر کی ضرورت | www.pakgold.net |
2026-10-23T01:00 | Why Fossil Fuel Demand Persists Despite Clean Energy Growth | www.pakgold.net |
2026-10-23T01:00 | کلین انرجی کے باوجود فوسل فیول کی طلب کیوں برقرار ہے؟ | www.pakgold.net |
2026-10-23T00:10 | کینیڈا کی سٹراتھکونا ایشیا کو 250,000 بیرل یومیہ تیل برآمد کرنے کی خواہاں | www.pakgold.net |
2026-10-23T00:10 | Strathcona Pitches 250,000 Bpd Canadian Oil Export Route to Asia | www.pakgold.net |
2026-10-23T00:00 | South Korea's celebrity shark foil rescue attempt, returns to Busan canal | www.geo.tv |
2026-10-23T00:00 | Arc Browser is shutting down: Here's what happens to your data | www.geo.tv |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
urdupoint.com | 25,970 | 22.5% | query |
www.express.pk | 10,147 | 8.8% | query |
arynews.tv | 7,782 | 6.7% | query |
www.thenews.com.pk | 6,370 | 5.5% | query |
www.geo.tv | 5,763 | 5.0% | query |
dunya.com.pk | 5,372 | 4.7% | query |
tribune.com.pk | 4,978 | 4.3% | query |
www.pakgold.net | 4,454 | 3.9% | query |
www.arabnews.pk | 4,034 | 3.5% | query |
www.samaa.tv | 3,808 | 3.3% | query |
jang.com.pk | 3,052 | 2.6% | query |
www.aaj.tv | 2,894 | 2.5% | query |
en.dailypakistan.com.pk | 2,809 | 2.4% | query |
www.techjuice.pk | 2,484 | 2.2% | query |
ekglobalcapital.com | 2,362 | 2.0% | query |
mashriqquetta.com.pk | 2,251 | 1.9% | query |
www.qaumiawaz.com | 2,154 | 1.9% | query |
pni.net.pk | 1,712 | 1.5% | query |
ur.mehrnews.com | 1,699 | 1.5% | query |
tvtodaynews.tv | 1,593 | 1.4% | query |
www.bolnews.com | 1,423 | 1.2% | query |
bolnews.com | 1,377 | 1.2% | query |
pakistancurrent.com | 1,280 | 1.1% | query |
ur.abna24.com | 1,170 | 1.0% | query |
jehanpakistan.pk | 1,128 | 1.0% | 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 | 48,644 | 42.1% |
| com | global commercial | 40,252 | 34.9% |
| tv | media | 22,065 | 19.1% |
| net | global network | 4,459 | 3.9% |
| news | news publications | 38 | 0.0% |
| ngo | ngo | 11 | 0.0% |
| co | Colombia | 5 | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 1,517 | |
2026-10-21 | 1,856 | |
2026-10-20 | 878 | |
2026-10-19 | 414 | |
2026-10-18 | 1,236 | |
2026-10-17 | 1,578 | |
2026-10-16 | 1,780 | |
2026-10-15 | 1,834 | |
2026-10-14 | 2,254 | |
2026-10-13 | 1,730 | |
2026-10-12 | 1,878 | |
2026-10-11 | 1,352 | |
2026-10-10 | 1,134 | |
2026-10-09 | 1,783 |
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"