Editorial Guidelines

CryptoPakistan reports on cryptocurrency, blockchain and digital-asset regulation as they affect Pakistan. These are the standards we hold ourselves to. They are public so you can hold us to them too.

Sourcing and attribution

Every news article links to its primary sources. Where a primary document exists — a PVARA notification, an FBR circular, a gazette entry, an exchange announcement, a court filing — we link to that document, not to another outlet's coverage of it.

Our minimum standard is three outbound citations per news article. Where we cannot verify a claim against a primary source, we say so in the article rather than reporting it as settled.

When we report what another publication has said, we name that publication and link to it.

How we use AI

We use AI tools, and we think readers are entitled to know exactly where.

AI assists with: monitoring regulator publications and official feeds, summarising long source documents for our own reading, structuring drafts, and preparing versions of published articles for our newsletter and social channels.

AI does not write our claims. Any sentence asserting a fact about Pakistani law, tax, regulation or religious rulings is written and verified by a human against the primary document. No article is published without a person reading it in full first.

We do not publish machine-generated articles at volume. We would rather publish three pieces a week that are correct than twenty that are plausible.

Subjects we treat with particular care

Three areas carry consequences beyond a bad headline, and we apply extra verification to each.

Religious rulings. We report what scholars and institutions have ruled, with their reasoning, and we identify who issued the ruling and when. We do not adjudicate Islamic law — we are journalists, not muftis. Where scholarly opinion is divided, we present the division rather than picking a winner. Pages covering religious rulings carry no affiliate links.

Tax and legal obligations. We distinguish clearly between what is enacted law, what is proposed, and what is speculation. We are not tax advisers and nothing we publish is tax or legal advice.

Investment risk. We do not tell readers what to buy. Nothing on this site is financial advice.

Corrections

We correct errors openly. When a published article contains a factual error, we fix it and add a dated correction note at the foot of the article explaining what was wrong and what changed. We do not quietly edit and move on, and we do not delete articles to make mistakes disappear.

For substantial errors that changed the meaning of a story, the correction is noted at the top of the article.

If you believe something we published is wrong, tell us through our contact page. Include the article and the specific claim. We will respond.

Independence and money

We earn revenue from affiliate relationships with cryptocurrency exchanges, from sponsorship, and from advertising. Every page containing affiliate links discloses this.

Commercial relationships never determine coverage. If a platform we have an affiliate relationship with loses its licence, is sanctioned, or fails its users, we report it exactly as we would report it about any other platform. Sponsorship buys placement on this site. It does not buy editorial treatment, and it never buys silence.

Sponsored content is labelled as sponsored, clearly, at the top.

Our limits

We are a small publication. We do not have correspondents in every city or the resources of a national newspaper. Where we are reporting at the edge of what we can verify, we say so plainly rather than projecting false confidence.