Pakistan Standard Time is UTC+05:00 year-round, thirty minutes behind India Standard Time.
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PKT covers Pakistan via Asia/Karachi. The half-hour gap with IST is a frequent conversion detail for travel and broadcast between Karachi, Islamabad, Mumbai, and Delhi.
The offset shown above is computed from Asia/Karachi at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
Pakistan does not currently observe daylight saving time.
Pakistan Standard Time (PKT) uses the IANA identifier Asia/Karachi. Pakistan Standard Time is UTC+05:00 year-round, thirty minutes behind India Standard Time.
Right now Pakistan Standard Time is UTC+05:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+5.
Pakistan does not currently observe daylight saving time.
Use the converter with Asia/Karachi as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses PKT. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.