DASHBOARD

What is the Crime News Analysis Dashboard?

Crime reporting shapes how the public understands safety, justice and law enforcement in Pakistan. But the news is scattered across dozens of outlets and two languages, which makes it hard to see the bigger picture.

The Crime News Analysis Dashboard 2025 brings together more than 20,000 crime news stories published by 15 Pakistani English- and Urdu-language outlets between January and December 2025. Each story has been cleaned of duplicates and repeat reports, then classified by city and crime category, giving a structured, searchable view of what Pakistan’s news reported on crime during the year.

Explore Crime Reporting Across Pakistan

The dashboard lets users explore stories by month, city, crime category and news source. Users can see which crime types appear most often in each city, how coverage of a topic changed over the year, and how reporting differs across outlets and languages. Each record also carries details reported in the story, such as the method used, police action taken, and a link back to the original article.

Stay Informed with Crime News Data

Journalists, researchers, policymakers and students can use the dashboard to spot patterns in crime coverage, compare cities and categories, and trace any figure back to its source story. By turning scattered news reports into one structured dataset, it supports transparent, evidence-based discussion of crime and public safety.

Disclaimer

The data in this dashboard is drawn from news stories published by Pakistani media outlets. It records what was reported, not official crime statistics, so counts reflect news coverage and not the actual number of incidents. The set of outlets is not a random sample of all Pakistani media, and a single incident may be covered by more than one outlet. Classification into categories and cities was done by GDAP for public understanding and educational insight, and may contain errors. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, the data remains subject to the limitations of the original news reports.ns.