Capital: Islamabad · One time zone nationwide (PKT, UTC+5) · home country of the calculation method used across most of South Asia.
METHOD: UNIVERSITY OF ISLAMIC SCIENCES, KARACHIPakistan runs on a single time zone (PKT, UTC+5) from Gwadar on the Arabian Sea to the Karakoram in the north, so unlike Indonesia or the United States, there's no cross-country time-zone math to think about here — only the normal city-to-city shift in sunrise and sunset caused by latitude and longitude.
What makes Pakistan distinct on this list is that the calculation convention most of this region uses — the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method — was actually developed here, in Karachi. It's the default in most Pakistani mosque schedules and government-adjacent calendars, and it's also the most common choice for prayer apps across neighbouring India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
The Karachi method uses an 18° angle for both Fajr and Isha — slightly wider than the Muslim World League's 17°/18° split — which tends to place Fajr a few minutes earlier and Isha a few minutes later than MWL-based schedules in the same city. It's one of the reasons a Pakistani and a Gulf-based prayer app can show Fajr times a few minutes apart for a similar latitude.
City-level pages with live, minute-by-minute Salah times are being added gradually. For any of these — or any other Pakistani city — get today's exact times with the tool linked below.
Yes — the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi convention is the de facto national standard, used from Gwadar to Gilgit. What changes from city to city is latitude and longitude, not the method itself.
Usually because the app defaults to a different method — Muslim World League or ISNA, for example — instead of Karachi. Switching the method in an app's settings to "Karachi" should bring it in line with what local mosques announce.
No — all of Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, keeps a single national time zone (PKT, UTC+5) year-round, with no daylight saving adjustment.