Entity

Pakistan

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 8 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Business and Water.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure 'worrying' for outlook: Pakistan finance minister

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • 17 children killed, over 40 injured as school roof collapses in Pakistan's Peshawar

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • RDX, detonators destroyed in Rajasthan after drone drop near India-Pakistan border

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Pakistan Faces Winter Gas Shortages if Hormuz LNG Remains Choked

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Punjab Police arrests six accused busts Pakistan ISI-backed illegal arms, explosives supply module

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 7 events and claims involving Pakistan

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 56 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 64 on 26 Sept 2026 (-12%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 15 Oct 2026 (8 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,761 documents · 216 publishers · 9% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.089: about 91% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Pakistan

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IranIndiaSaudi ArabiaOilYemenUnited StatesChinaIsraelHormuz
  • Iran · 766 shared documents
  • India · 632 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 597 shared documents
  • Oil · 489 shared documents
  • Turkish · 485 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Yemen · 479 shared documents
  • United States · 457 shared documents
  • China · 442 shared documents
  • Israel · 440 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 400 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 56 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 64 on 26 Sept 2026 (-12%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +833% from 3 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 5 and 90 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Pakistan, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Pakistan yet. Ask about Pakistan

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/a403407ed5519a9db233767a returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name pakistan.

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  "label": "Pakistan",
  "asOf": "2026-10-17",
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  "outlets": 77,
  "domains": 8,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-17T17:29:52.650730+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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  "coverageTrend": "fading",
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    "changes": 8
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  "whereFrom": {
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    "label": "324 mentions across 8 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "5 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
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        }
      },
      {
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        "label": "8 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 8,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 319 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Pakistan

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure 'worrying' for outlook: Pakistan finance minister

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • 17 children killed, over 40 injured as school roof collapses in Pakistan's Peshawar

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • RDX, detonators destroyed in Rajasthan after drone drop near India-Pakistan border

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Pakistan Faces Winter Gas Shortages if Hormuz LNG Remains Choked

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Punjab Police arrests six accused busts Pakistan ISI-backed illegal arms, explosives supply module

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Pakistani president suspends provincial government led by Imran Khan’s party ahead of march

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Türkiye demand end to Houthi attacks as deadly strikes hit Riyadh airport

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 14 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Pakistan

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Pakistan

Entity.

Evidence
1,761 documents · 216 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 25 Apr 2026, last seen 17 Oct 2026
Measured
9% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
17 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (7)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Pakistan, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about Pakistan

Markets whose question is about Pakistan or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Pakistan and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 15 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 15 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 14 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 13 Oct 2026

  • 14 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 13 Oct 2026

  • 13 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 13 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 5 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 5 Oct 2026

8 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 17 Oct 2026.