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title: "Pakistan Interior Ministry reveals arms licence figures for past three years"
description: "Most outlets reported the total number of arms licences issued in Pakistan over the past three years, with the key figure of 13,922 appearing in the excerpts. Pakistan Observer framed the story as a question, focusing on the quantity of licences, while Minute Mirror provided the figure directly and noted the source as the National Assembly. Both excerpts focused on the factual disclosure of the data without additional context or commentary."
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# Pakistan Interior Ministry reveals arms licence figures for past three years

pakistan · updated 16 Oct 2026, 7:59 PM PKT · 16 Oct 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported the total number of arms licences issued in Pakistan over the past three years, with the key figure of 13,922 appearing in the excerpts. Pakistan Observer framed the story as a question, focusing on the quantity of licences, while Minute Mirror provided the figure directly and noted the source as the National Assembly. Both excerpts focused on the factual disclosure of the data without additional context or commentary.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Minute Mirror** — [Pakistan issued 13,922 arms licences in three year...](https://minutemirror.com.pk/pakistan-issued-13922-arms-licences-in-three-years-interior-ministry-reveals-645926/) · 16 Oct 2026, 7:59 PM PKT
  > Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has revealed that a total of 13,922 arms licences were issued across the country over the past three years according to details presented in the National Assembly.
- **Pakistan Observer** — [How many arms licences Pakistan issued in last three years?](https://pakobserver.net/how-many-arms-licences-pakistan-issued-in-last-three-years/) · 16 Oct 2026, 3:21 PM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing
  > ISLAMABAD – The Ministry of Interior has released figures detailing the issuance of prohibited and non-prohibited bore arms licences, revealing…

## Part of a bigger story

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- [Federal government reduces non-prohibited arms licences by over 90% in 13 months](https://harzaviya.com/stories/5776-govt-cuts-arms-licence-issuance-by-over-90pc) · 1 Sep 2026 · 4 outlets · 73% related

2 articles from 2 outlets, 16 Oct 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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