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Pakistan

Raast provides instant domestic payments in Pakistani rupees; PayPak is a separate local card scheme.

By AsianBookies88.com

Country facts

South Asia
Capital
Islamabad
Currency
PKR Rs Pakistani rupee
Population
255.22m 2025 estimate
Time zone
UTC+5 No seasonal clock change.
Calling code
+92
Domain
.pk
Cricket icon Popular sport Cricket Sources & dates
Pakistan highlighted in charcoal, with neighbouring areas in grey. Generalised Natural Earth locator.
Pakistan highlighted
Generalised locator · Natural Earth

Bookmakers

Compare three bookmaker reviews selected from the BetandLink profiles that list Pakistan. The currency and language information below comes from the supplied archive; it does not establish current local authorisation.

Pakistan provides a useful example of the difference between a payment network, a card scheme and a customer-facing account. Raast is instant-payment infrastructure, PayPak is a domestic card scheme, and Easypaisa offers financial services through its own customer interface. [5] [6] [7]

For any operator review, Urdu support, a PKR display and acceptance of Pakistani residents should be checked independently. None can be established from a country flag alone. Islamabad’s time zone is UTC+5, which is half an hour behind India; that difference matters when an international cricket schedule is published for a neighbouring audience. [2]

More bookies

  • Marathonbet
    Language
    English
    Currency
    USD · EUR

    PKR is not listed in this profile.

  • Pinnacle
    Language
    English
    Currency
    USD · EUR

    PKR is not listed in this profile.

  • Melbet
    Language
    Urdu
    Currency
    PKR · Rs
  • 888Starz
    Language
    Urdu
    Currency
    PKR · Rs

Profile details come from the supplied BetandLink archive. Operators with a documented current customer restriction for this country are excluded. A language option or currency listing does not confirm current registration eligibility or local authorisation.

Did you know?

Indus cities

Moenjodaro, in Sindh, preserves a major urban site of the Indus civilisation dating to the third millennium BCE. UNESCO describes a planned settlement with streets, brick buildings and public structures. Its archaeological remains show that sophisticated urban organisation forms part of the region’s ancient history. [9]

Water management is one of the site’s revealing features. Wells, drainage arrangements and bathing structures help explain how a large settlement functioned, beyond the more familiar image of a monumental ruin. Moenjodaro provides a country-specific curiosity that connects architecture, everyday life and the Indus landscape. [9]

Odds explained

Odds formats

Decimal prices are used for the examples on this page, without claiming a universal Pakistani odds convention. The number includes the original stake within the potential total return. For a cricket market, read the named match, innings or player condition before comparing two apparently similar prices. [12]

A hypothetical 100-unit stake at 1.95 would return 195 units in total if successful: 100 units returned plus 95 profit. The quoted price is not a guarantee that the selection will win.

Currency

Pakistan uses the Pakistani rupee, identified internationally by PKR. The abbreviation Rs is less precise in a regional comparison because other South Asian currencies also use the word rupee. Keeping PKR beside an amount makes balances, charges and payment limits easier to compare without confusing the monetary unit. [1]

PKR

Pakistani rupee

Currency settings

A conversion shown in a foreign currency is not the same thing as a PKR account balance. For ordinary purchases, compare the complete rupee debit with the invoice amount and separately identify conversion or transfer fees. Save both values so that a later refund can be checked against the original transaction.

Payments

Domestic payment options in Pakistan include the services below. Their presence in the country does not mean that a bookmaker accepts them.

Raast

Payments

The State Bank of Pakistan describes Raast as an instant payment system serving individuals, businesses and government entities. It connects participating financial services for account-based payments. Customers should use their provider’s supported process and verify the displayed recipient before confirming an instruction. [5]

PayPak

Domestic card

PayPak is Pakistan’s domestic payment-card scheme, operated by 1LINK. A PayPak-branded card has an issuing institution whose terms determine the product’s features. The domestic scheme label should not be expanded into a claim that every international online merchant or every transaction type is supported. [6]

Easypaisa

Payments

Easypaisa’s official service information describes money transfers, including supported Raast transactions, and other everyday financial functions. It is a customer-facing service that can connect with national payment infrastructure. Check the receiving account, transaction category and current fees instead of assuming all transfers use identical conditions. [7]

Before paying

These examples explain Pakistan’s domestic payment system. They do not establish a connection between a reviewed bookmaker and Raast, PayPak or Easypaisa. A merchant’s use of a familiar logo is insufficient evidence of a supported payment relationship, and person-to-person transfers should not be confused with a verified merchant checkout.

Local operator

Local status

Not verified

No Pakistani-domain bookmaker has been verified here. National Savings provides an official local resource for prize bonds and their draws. Those are savings instruments with a prize mechanism, not sports-betting accounts. [8]

Official information

Cricket

Cricket icon

Pakistan won the men’s T20 World Cup in 2009, an achievement commemorated by the Pakistan Cricket Board on its fifteenth anniversary. That title remains a clear landmark in the team’s short-format history. When reading results or comparing teams, distinguish international matches from domestic competitions and identify whether the format is Test, one-day or T20. [10]

Sources

Population: 2025. United Nations 2025 projected estimate, medium-fertility variant; rounded for display. Country facts and operator profile information have separate sources.

  1. United Nations Statistics Division — UNData country profile: Pakistan
  2. IANA — Time Zone Database: Asia
  3. IANA — Root Zone Database
  4. International Telecommunication Union — National Numbering Plans
  5. State Bank of Pakistan — Raast
  6. 1LINK — PayPak
  7. Easypaisa — Money Transfer
  8. Central Directorate of National Savings, Pakistan — Prize Bonds
  9. UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
  10. Pakistan Cricket Board — PCB celebrates 15 years of T20 World Cup 2009 victory
  11. Natural Earth — Generalised country boundaries, 1:50m
  12. Sportradar — Decimal, Hong Kong and Malay odds
  13. 22BIT — Cryptocurrencies and identity verification
  14. IANA — .pk delegation record
  15. BetandLink — 1XBET profile
  16. BetandLink — Betwinner profile
  17. BetandLink — 22BET profile
  18. BetandLink — Marathonbet profile
  19. BetandLink — Pinnacle profile
  20. BetandLink — Melbet profile
  21. BetandLink — 888Starz profile
  22. BetandLink — Linebet profile