One search bar for Pakistan and the world's news.
Khabar Lens pulls headlines together by country and topic, so you spend less time switching tabs and more time reading what matters.
Search the news
Try a keyword like "economy", "cricket" or "elections"
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The complete guide
How to search, read and trust the news — a practical guide
News is simply an account of something that has recently happened, written or broadcast so that other people can find out about it. Understanding how that pipeline works makes you a sharper reader, and it is also why Khabar Lens exists: a single place to search news from Pakistan alongside headlines from other countries.
Where does a news story actually start?
Almost every news story begins the same way: something happens, someone notices it is worth telling others about, and a reporter verifies the basic facts before publishing.
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Frequently asked questions
Results are filtered from our indexed headline set by matching your keyword against the title, summary, category and country of each story, then ranked by recency.
Pakistan is covered in the most depth, alongside India, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bangladesh, Turkey, Afghanistan, Russia and France, with more being added over time.
Headlines are designed to refresh continuously. This theme ships with a sample dataset — see the README for connecting a live news API.
Keyword search currently matches English-language titles and summaries. Urdu-language search is on the roadmap.
Yes, searching and browsing headlines is free.
Yes. The layout, search form and navigation all resize and re-flow for phones, tablets and desktops.
See the Privacy Policy page for full details on what is collected and how it is used.
Use the Contact Us page — submissions are reviewed and corrected as needed.
From the Khabar Lens journal
Short reads on how news is made, why it spreads, and how to consume it well.