Speech Consequence map

Insights

Every chart follows the filters in the sidebar. Change the years, province or source and the charts redraw; each map's own checkboxes narrow its section.

Incidents per year, all maps The whole timeline at a glance, one coloured band per map

Stacked: the top edge of the coloured bands is the total across the five incident maps. Gov Takedowns counts platform requests, not incidents, so it has its own section below.

Speech Consequences

Top 10 laws used Laws cited against people for what they said. Click a bar to read the law

Platform triggers Where the speech that led to action was posted

Target profile Who faced the consequences

Read from the headline and summary. "Citizen / not stated" = no journalist, activist or student role named.

Digital Shutdowns

Shutdowns by province Where mobile and internet services were cut

Nationwide shutdowns have their own bar.

Shutdowns per year Reported shutdowns in each year

What was cut Services switched off or blocked

A shutdown that cut several things counts under each.

Duration of blackouts How long each shutdown lasted, where reported

Offline Violence

Violent incidents by province Blasts, attacks, targeted killings and security operations

Fatalities by year Deaths stated in the reports

Attack types Share of violent incidents by type

Militant groups named Groups the reports name as responsible

Blasphemy Cases

Blasphemy cases per year Accusations, arrests, trials, verdicts and attacks

Legal sections used Pakistan Penal Code sections cited

PPC sections the report cites; a case citing two counts under each.

Accused religion Religion of the accused, as reported

As the report states it; 298-B and 298-C cases are counted as Ahmadi.

Enforced Disappearances

Disappearances by province Where people were reported taken or missing

Victim profile The role or occupation the report gives

Status (as of the report) Still missing, or found, when the report was published

Gov Takedowns

Removal requests from Pakistani authorities Requests each platform received, per half-year

Per half-year, as each platform reports it. Meta publishes no request count.

Items removed or restricted Posts, videos and accounts acted on, per half-year

Follows the Timeline filter, and the Platform filter on the Gov Takedowns view.

Charts count the verified incidents that match the sidebar filters. Laws, platforms, targets, durations and groups are read automatically from each report, so they are approximate and undercount; an incident naming two counts under each. With a province chosen, nationwide shutdowns stay in, as on the map.

Government takedown requests

What Pakistani authorities asked Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Google (incl. YouTube), TikTok and X (Twitter) to remove or block, and what the platforms did, as each platform reports it every six months.

Removal requests received from Pakistani authorities

Meta does not publish how many requests it receives, only what it restricted.

Items removed or restricted (posts, videos, accounts)

Includes items a platform removed under its own rules after a government request. X counts accounts and posts withheld or actioned; Google, items removed.

Compliance rate (%)

Each platform measures this differently (share of requests acted on for X and Google before 2019; share of items for Google from 2019 and TikTok), so compare trends, not levels. Meta publishes no rate.

Figures by platform and half-year

Period	Platform	Requests	Items named	Removed or restricted	Compliance	What the figures count

What the PTA told courts and Parliament

The PTA's own count of the links it reported to each platform and how many were blocked, from its court reports and Senate or National Assembly briefings as news reports quote them. The blocking rate is the PTA's measure (links blocked of those it reported), not the platform's compliance rate above. Totals are usually cumulative since the PTA began counting, not per half-year.

Reported	Told to	Platform	Links reported	Blocked	Blocking rate	As quoted

Figures are the platforms' own and are not checked independently. Coverage differs: X has published no Pakistan figures since H2 2021, and TikTok's figures in this format start in H1 2022. "—" means the platform did not publish that figure. The PTA's figures are read automatically from news reports, which sometimes misprint them; check the quote and the source. See Methodology for each source.