{"id":7950,"date":"2026-02-28T06:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/28\/pakistan-bans-drone-flights-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:59:17","slug":"pakistan-bans-drone-flights-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/28\/pakistan-bans-drone-flights-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Bans All Drone Flights Nationwide Amid Retaliatory Attack Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Interior has announced a nationwide ban on all unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) flights until further notice. This decision follows retaliatory attacks attributed to Afghanistan and, according to officials, has been implemented immediately.<\/p>\n<p>According to Geo News, Pakistani authorities have warned that anyone violating this order will face legal action. The ban encompasses all personal and commercial uses of drones.<\/p>\n<p>However, the use of drones by intelligence agencies is exempt from this directive. Officials have not provided further details about the scope of this exception.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, the local administration of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has declared a 30-day ban on drone flights in open spaces within the province. The administration&#8217;s statement said that under current conditions, any drone-related activity\u2014whether licensed or unlicensed\u2014could pose a direct or indirect threat to the lives and property of citizens, government infrastructure, and public order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan bans all drone flights nationwide amid security concerns following retaliatory attacks linked to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}