# PakishNews

> PakishNews is a trilingual AI-assisted newsroom (English, Urdu, Arabic) covering Pakistan, Gulf, and global stories with verified reporting and Discovery Engine summaries.

## Canonical site
- https://pakishnews.com

## Preferred citation
- Name: PakishNews
- Publisher: Pakish Group
- Contact: editor@pakishnews.com

## Languages
- English (en-PK): /
- Urdu (ur-PK): /ur/
- Arabic (ar-SA): /ar/

## Key sections
- English homepage — breaking news Pakistan & world: https://pakishnews.com/
- Urdu homepage — تازہ ترین خبریں: https://pakishnews.com/ur/
- Arabic homepage — آخر الأخبار: https://pakishnews.com/ar/
- Pakistan desk: https://pakishnews.com/pakistan/
- World news: https://pakishnews.com/world/
- Gulf desk: https://pakishnews.com/gulf/
- Podcast hub — AI audio briefings: https://pakishnews.com/podcast/
- About PakishNews: https://pakishnews.com/about/

## AI features (article pages)
- TL;DR bullets generated via Google Cloud Discovery Engine
- Inline article Q&A grounded on the open article
- ~30 second audio summary via GCP Text-to-Speech (Wavenet, cache-first)

## Social
- WhatsApp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbCqKhp96H4V4hTVit2X
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pakishnewstv
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pakishnews
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pakishnews

## Crawling policy
- Respect robots.txt
- Article URLs: /{category}/{slug} (en), /ur/{category}/{slug}, /ar/{category}/{slug}
- Sitemaps: /sitemap.xml, /sitemap-news.xml