Pakistan

News coverage about Pakistan accounts for 0.818% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 18.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.49 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.818%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-18.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.49
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Pakistan coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.82% on 2026-10-040.001.02.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Pakistan coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.49 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (8/day latest)

Protest events located in Pakistan: 91 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Diplomacy (72/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Pakistan: 91 days, latest 72.00 on 2026-10-040.0010002000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (14/day latest)

Coercive events located in Pakistan: 91 days, latest 14.00 on 2026-10-040.005001000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Pakistan, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 30% of the coverage about Pakistan came from outlets based in Pakistan — the rest was written from abroad (26,109 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Pakistan from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 42.55 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Pakistan produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Islamabad (61)
  • Karachi (22)
  • Peshawar (15)
  • Lahore (15)
  • Lakki Marwat (11)
  • South Waziristan (10)
  • Dera Ismail Khan (8)
  • Karak (8)
  • Bannu (8)
  • North Waziristan (8)
  • Ferozepur (7)
  • Charsadda (5)

Places named in coverage about Pakistan on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Pakistan

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$407.3B
World Bank, 2025
Population
255.2M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
27.2%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.7%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
4,405
best estimate
Civilian deaths
449
within the above
Recorded events
1,274
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
90,497
originating from Pakistan
Refugees hosted
1,159,038
from other countries
Asylum seekers
119,502
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 60 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

Coverage share measures articles published by Pakistan-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).