Pakistan NACTA Proscribed Persons

List of Proscribed Persons in Pakistan under the Anti Terrorism Act, 1997

This dataset contains the list of proscribed persons in Pakistan.

Under the Anti Terrorism Act, 1997, any individual whom either there is a credible intelligence-information or who has a history of being linked to a Proscribed Organization can be proscribed by Home Department of a Province and can be subjected to restrictions on travel, speech and business.

These persons are then included in the 4th Schedule under the Anti Terrorism Act.

Restrictions imposed on persons listed here include passport embargo, freezing of bank accounts, ban on financial support and credit, arms license embargo, and employment clearance restrictions.

Note that the technical implementation of the publisher's website currently makes it impossible to update the data in a fully automated way. For this reason, the data is only updated roughly every 90 days.

Data overview

Entities:
Total7,286
Searchable3,643
Targets3,643
Entity types:
People3,643
Countries:
Pakistan3,572
Publisher:National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) · Pakistan

The National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) is an Administative unit within the Ministry of Interior, under a National Coordinator. It's powers and mandate are spelled out under Section 4 of NACTA Act,2013

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default
Information:nacta.gov.pk
Source data:nfs.nacta.gov.pk · JSON
Coverage:added · frequency: not automated
Last processed:2025-12-14 09:57:01 · v. 20251214095701-lqj
Last change:

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities3.59 MB
names.txtTarget names text file41.67 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.87 MB
source.jsonSource data432.42 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.64 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV797.94 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
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Programs1

This dataset consolidates entities targeted by the following sanctions programs, policy regimes or sub-lists:

IDTitleIssuerTarget countries
[PK-ATA1997]Pakistan Anti Terrorism Act 1997NACTA Pakistan

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Shahzad Ahmed BajwaPersonPakistan
Muhammad Qasim TooriPersonPakistan
IkramPersonPakistan
Niaz MuhammadPersonPakistan
Hussain khanPersonPakistan
Shahid Ali HaidriPersonPakistan
Uzair Ahmed AbdullahPersonPakistan
Muhammad Ali BhattiPersonPakistan
asghar aliPersonPakistan
imdad aliPersonPakistan
Nizam dinPersonPakistan
zulfiqar aliPersonPakistan
shafi MuhammadPersonPakistan
Abdul KhaliqPersonPakistan
Syed RazaPersonPakistan
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