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Pakistan Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from Pakistan with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Pakistan Nation News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Pakistan.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=pk&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 174072,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "933a91fbfeabc7232f19b80c7e72a67d",
            "title": "Gul Plaza fire: How a deadly inferno exposed Karachi’s safety failures",
            "description": "Karachi’s deadliest fire in years raises urgent questions about building safety, rescue capacity and urban governance.",
            "content": "Islamabad, Pakistan – A fire that tore through a shopping centre over the weekend in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, has killed at least 23 people, including a firefighter, as rescuers race to find dozens more still missing.\nThe city’s biggest fire... [7575 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/20/gul-plaza-fire-how-a-deadly-inferno-exposed-karachis-safety-failures",
            "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-01-20T083355Z_236754118_RC2S4JA89B2A_RTRMADP_3_PAKISTAN-FIRE-1768907149.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-20T15:16:29Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7530d90c9af769eda4cb548f32ed381d",
                "name": "Al Jazeera",
                "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4c075e4fec316f92f42a737477470322",
            "title": "Karachi plaza fire search enters fourth day",
            "description": "Hopes of finding survivors of a Karachi shopping plaza fire have faded. Authorities said Tuesday the search for dozens of people reported missing has entered a fourth day in Pakistan’s largest city.",
            "content": "KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The search for dozens of people reported missing after a massive fire at a shopping plaza in Pakistan’s largest city entered a fourth day Tuesday as hopes of finding survivors faded, officials said.\nRescuers reached some of t... [1699 chars]",
            "url": "https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-shopping-plaze-fire-search-fading-hopes-1c67cb488b309de0038a51b085d95142",
            "image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/26c2215/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3244x1825+0+169/resize/1440x810!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F16%2F82%2F710ddf7e7fd6d59c68be62840bf8%2F81f523db45854cd3a01a4c702d942a8d",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-20T12:59:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b356d47a35dfffa723fc8131b36c3ed1",
                "name": "AP News",
                "url": "https://apnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8801197d055aa02524c92e7734814437",
            "title": "Rare snow leopard spotted after 21 years in Chitral dies of natural causes",
            "description": "Snow leopards typically live between 10 to 13 years in wild, deceased animal was estimated to be over 12 years old",
            "content": "PESHAWAR:\nA rare snow leopard that was found dead in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Chitral region was explained to have died from natural causes, officials said on Tuesday.\nThe carcass of the snow leopard was discovered in the mountainous region of Garam Chas... [1970 chars]",
            "url": "https://tribune.com.pk/story/2588109/post-mortem-report-shows-rare-snow-leopard-found-dead-in-k-ps-chitral-died-of-natural-causes",
            "image": "https://i.tribune.com.pk/media/images/et-shayan-61768909894-0/et-shayan-61768909894-0-640x480.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-20T12:33:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dcb907b246e9416f896f3c66fedfc7cd",
                "name": "The Express Tribune",
                "url": "https://tribune.com.pk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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