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CAMPAIGN STATS
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Operation Statistics
On 01 March 2026, during active Pakistan-Afghanistan hostilities (Operation Ghazab Lil Haq), ODINT conducted a 3-hour passive reconnaissance sweep of Pakistani government and academic digital infrastructure. All data was extracted through Tor using entirely open-source methods — no exploits, no authentication bypass.
57+
Domains Scanned
12
Live Targets Enumerated
46 MB
Data Extracted
3 hrs
Operation Window
65%
Gov Infrastructure Offline
340+
Individuals Identified
1,471
Government Datasets Dumped
18,460+
URLs Discovered
Detailed Technical Reports
Nine specialized annexes covering wartime infrastructure, WordPress API exposure, personnel intelligence, CKAN data, admin panels, server disclosure, Balochistan, and government infrastructure mapping.
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CONTEXT
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The Wartime Context
Pakistan's digital infrastructure cracked in two on 01 March 2026. Core government — the President's Office, Parliament, the Nuclear Commission (PAEC), the State Bank, the Federal Board of Revenue, national railway, NADRA's public services — went completely silent. Whether through deliberate defensive shutdown or genuine infrastructure collapse under the weight of Operation Ghazab Lil Haq, 35+ major .gov.pk domains returned no response.
What remained standing tells its own story. The institutions Pakistan did not protect — its universities, a provincial government, an open data portal, two federal admin panels — were left fully exposed, with no additional WAF deployment, no IP restriction, and in some cases running web servers seven years out of date.
Pakistan prioritized protecting its nuclear and financial infrastructure. It forgot its universities, its poorest province, and its open data platform entirely.
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INFRASTRUCTURE STATUS
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Infrastructure Collapse: What Went Down
Of 57+ Pakistani domains scanned during active hostilities, 65% were completely unreachable, 17% were behind WAFs blocking Tor, and only 21% remained accessible and functional.
Completely Unreachable (>35 domains)
| Domain | Organization | Status |
| pakistan.gov.pk | Federal Government Portal | DOWN |
| pmo.gov.pk | Prime Minister's Office | DOWN |
| senate.gov.pk / na.gov.pk | Parliament (both chambers) | DOWN |
| paec.gov.pk | Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission | DOWN |
| nescom.gov.pk | Nuclear & Missile Development | DOWN |
| sbp.org.pk | State Bank of Pakistan | DOWN |
| fbr.gov.pk / iris.fbr.gov.pk | Federal Board of Revenue / IRIS 2.0 | DOWN |
| mail.ntc.net.pk | Federal Government Email (Zimbra) | DOWN |
| punjab.gov.pk / sindh.gov.pk | Punjab & Sindh Provinces | DOWN |
| nadra.gov.pk (e-services) | National Identity Database (public) | DOWN |
Behind WAF — Tor Blocked (10 domains)
| Domain | WAF | Status |
| ispr.gov.pk | Cloudflare | 403 BLOCKED |
| paknavy.gov.pk | Cloudflare | 403 BLOCKED |
| nust.edu.pk | Cloudflare | 403 BLOCKED |
| comsats.edu.pk | Cloudflare | 403 BLOCKED |
| gcu.edu.pk | Sucuri/Cloudproxy | 403 BLOCKED |
Full wartime infrastructure status with all 57+ domains: Wartime Infrastructure Status
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LIVE TARGETS
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Live Targets: What Stayed Open
Twelve domains remained accessible and were subjected to deep enumeration. The institutions left exposed reveal a pattern of neglect that no wartime defensive posture corrected.
qau.edu.pk
Quaid-i-Azam University — Pakistan's #1 ranked university (QS Rankings)
Server: nginx/1.14.1 (7-year-old build)
CMS: WordPress — REST API fully exposed
Data: 6.6 MB extracted
Extras: Roundcube webmail + phpMyAdmin confirmed
pu.edu.pk
University of the Punjab — Pakistan's largest university (est. 1882)
Server: Apache (custom PHP)
Sitemap: 18,460 URLs extracted
Data: 8.3 MB extracted
Admin: /admin/ — HTTP 200, no authentication
balochistan.gov.pk
Government of Balochistan — the only remaining live provincial .gov.pk portal
CMS: WordPress + Elementor — REST API fully exposed
Users: admin_bal (ID 4) enumerated with gravatar hash
Data: 5.9 MB — 149 pages, 1,297 media items
Content: Divisional commissioners, Gwadar Safe City data, budget 2020–2026
sit.balochistan.gov.pk
Science & IT Department, Balochistan — shares admin with balochistan.gov.pk
CMS: WordPress + Elementor
Users: 2 accounts — admin (ID 1) with identical gravatar hash as balochistan.gov.pk
wp-login.php: Directly accessible
Impact: Single person administers both provincial WordPress installations
opendata.com.pk
Pakistan Open Data Portal — CKAN 2.8.3
Server: nginx/1.12.2 (8-year-old build)
API: /api/3/action/* — fully accessible without authentication
Data: 8.9 MB — 1,471 datasets, 36 user accounts, 22 organizations
lums.edu.pk
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Exposure: phpinfo.php — complete server configuration disclosed
Stack: RHEL 8.10, Apache 2.4.66, PHP 8.1.34, SSH2 + LDAP extensions
Data: 102 KB including kernel version and all PHP config
fsp.gov.pk
Ministry of National Food Security & Research — Federal Portal
Exposure: /AdminLogin — public admin panel, no WAF, no CAPTCHA
Server: Apache
Risk: National food supply chain data and policy decisions
ep.gov.pk
Pakistan Post EMTTS — Express Mail Track & Trace System
Exposure: /hq/locationissue.asp — Admin Login, IIS/10.0 + ASP.NET
Extras: /trace.axd returns 403 (tracing enabled), /hq/ partial admin interface
Risk: HQ-level postal operations management
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WORDPRESS EXPOSURE
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WordPress REST API: Three Government Installations Fully Exposed
Three Pakistani organizations expose their complete WordPress REST API without authentication: Quaid-i-Azam University, the Government of Balochistan, and Balochistan's Science & IT Department. Combined extraction: 13.4 MB of structured government and academic data.
Pages: 200
Posts: 484
Media: 603 items (direct URLs)
Search results: 1,545 (43 keyword probes)
Pakistan's #1 ranked university running nginx/1.14.1 (2018 build) with its full WordPress API, Roundcube webmail login, and phpMyAdmin interface publicly accessible. 65+ named staff with direct phone lines, personal email addresses, and organizational positions extracted without authentication.
curl https://qau.edu.pk/wp-json/wp/v2/users
403 Forbidden (user enum blocked)
curl https://qau.edu.pk/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?per_page=100
200 OK — 200 pages, 2.4 MB
curl https://qau.edu.pk/webmail/
200 OK — Roundcube Webmail login
curl https://qau.edu.pk/phpmyadmin/
302 Redirect — phpMyAdmin confirmed
Pages: 149
Media: 1,297 items (with download URLs)
Admin hash: 49d835e800b2f8de...
The only remaining live provincial government portal in Pakistan. One administrator (admin_bal) manages both balochistan.gov.pk and sit.balochistan.gov.pk — confirmed by an identical gravatar hash across both installations. Compromising one email account falls both sites. wp-login.php is directly accessible on the SIT domain.
balochistan.gov.pk admin_bal (ID 4) gravatar: 49d835e800b2f8...
sit.balochistan.gov.pk admin (ID 1) gravatar: 49d835e800b2f8...
↑ IDENTICAL HASH
Single person = two provincial government WordPress installations
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PERSONNEL INTELLIGENCE
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Personnel Intelligence: 340+ Named Individuals
Across all targets, 340+ individuals were identified with varying degrees of personal contact information. All data was extracted from publicly accessible sources without authentication.
65+
QAU Staff (phones, emails)
8
Balochistan Divisional Commissioners
298
Gwadar Safe City Candidates
36
CKAN Platform Accounts
Balochistan Divisional Commissioners
Eight senior provincial administrators were identified by name and division from WordPress page content — including the commissioner for Makran Division (Dawood Khan Khilji), which borders Iran and hosts Gwadar Port, the centerpiece of CPEC.
Project: PMU Gwadar / ESCB Safe City Initiative
Context: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
Staffing lists for Gwadar's surveillance and command-and-control infrastructure were published through the Balochistan WordPress API. 298 shortlisted candidates for positions including Software Engineer, Network Engineer, Radio Communication Engineer, and Incharge Command & Control.
QAU Staff Directories — Sample
The following is a partial sample of data extracted from publicly accessible QAU staff pages. Direct phone extensions, institutional and personal email addresses, and organizational positions were recovered for 65+ individuals.
Dr. Shafiqur Rehman | Registrar | (+92) 51-9064-4046 |
[email protected]
Mr. Humayoun Khan | Additional Registrar | (+92) 51-9064-4063 |
[email protected]
Mr. Imran Sadiq | Deputy Controller | (+92) 333-5125111 |
[email protected]
Mr. Adnan Bokhari | Asst. Programmer | (+92) 51-9064-3231 |
[email protected]
Mr. Saeed Ur Rehman | Asst. Controller | (+92) 51-9064-4055 |
[email protected]
[+60 additional records in personnel annex]
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OPEN DATA CKAN
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Open Data Portal: 1,471 Government Datasets
Pakistan's Open Data Portal (opendata.com.pk) runs CKAN 2.8.3 on a server dating from October 2017. Despite declaring /api/ off-limits in robots.txt, the entire API is freely accessible without authentication.
Datasets: 1,471
User accounts: 36 (including 2 sysadmins)
Organizations: 22
Tags: 2,349
All 1,471 datasets were dumped including 121 election datasets (1970–2024), 30 census datasets, and 661 Pakistan Bureau of Statistics entries. 36 user accounts were enumerated with gravatar hashes, edit counts, and organizational affiliations. Two sysadmin accounts share email hashes indicating credential reuse.
curl https://opendata.com.pk/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1000
200 OK — 1,471 datasets
curl https://opendata.com.pk/api/3/action/user_list
200 OK — 36 accounts including sysadmins
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ADMIN PANELS
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Exposed Federal Admin Panels
Two federal government websites expose administrative login panels directly to the internet with no WAF, no IP restriction, and no CAPTCHA — during an active military conflict.
Ministry of National Food Security & Research administrative login is publicly accessible. Standard POST form, no rate limiting or brute-force protection observed. The ministry oversees national food supply chains, crop forecasting, and import/export regulation.
Express Mail Track & Trace System administrative panel on IIS/10.0 + ASP.NET. /trace.axd returns a 403 (not a 404), confirming ASP.NET request tracing is enabled on the server. HQ-level operations management accessible without restriction.
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SERVER DISCLOSURE
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Server Configuration Disclosure: LUMS phpinfo.php
Lahore University of Management Sciences exposes a phpinfo.php page (96 KB) revealing the complete server stack: hostname, kernel, OS version, PHP extensions, database config, and file system paths — a complete fingerprint for targeted exploitation.
Complete server fingerprint extracted including: hostname lumswebsite-websrv1, kernel 5.4.17-2136.350.3.2.el8uek.x86_64 (Oracle UEK), RHEL 8.10, Apache 2.4.66, PHP 8.1.34. PHP SSH2 and LDAP extensions confirm the server connects to other LUMS infrastructure — potential pivot paths.
System: Linux lumswebsite-websrv1 5.4.17-2136.350.3.2.el8uek.x86_64
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (Ootpa)
Apache: 2.4.66 (codeit) OpenSSL/3.5.4
PHP: 8.1.34 (FPM/FastCGI) — built Dec 16 2025
Extensions: SSH2, LDAP, mysqlnd, mcrypt, SOAP, cURL, Sodium, GD
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BALOCHISTAN DEEP
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Balochistan: Province in the Crosshairs
Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province by area (44% of Pakistan's territory), its strategic corridor for CPEC, and the host of Gwadar Port — China's Indian Ocean access point. During the Pakistan-Afghanistan war, it became a critical frontline zone. It was also the only remaining live provincial government.
The provincial WordPress API exposed divisional commissioner appointments across all 8 Balochistan divisions, complete budget documents from 2020 to 2026, legislation from 14+ departments, and the staffing list for Gwadar's surveillance infrastructure. The dual-TLD situation (.gov.pk and .gob.pk) creates additional impersonation risk.
Direct download URLs for PSDP documents, White Papers, Budget Speeches, Annual Budget Statements (Volumes I–VIII), and revenue breakdowns for all 6 years were extracted from the WordPress media endpoint. Provincial spending priorities, development allocations, and fiscal capacity are fully public.
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GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE MAP
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Government Digital Infrastructure
Pakistan's government digital infrastructure is centralized around a small number of critical systems. During wartime, all were either offline or locked down. The following represents the post-war targeting landscape.
220M+
Citizens in NADRA Database
500+
NITB Digital Initiatives
213
Pakistani ASNs
5.6M
IP Addresses (Global #51)
NADRA — National Identity Under Wartime Lockdown
NADRA's Nishan API platform — which powers Verisys (demographic verification), Biosys (biometric fingerprint), Multi-biometric (fingerprint + facial), and Proof-of-Life services for 220+ million Pakistani citizens — went completely dark. All six public-facing NADRA endpoints returned errors ranging from 403 to 500.
NADRA's CNIC number format encodes province, district, tehsil, union council, family lineage, and gender in 13 digits. A compromised CNIC dataset does not just expose an ID number — it maps a person's entire administrative geography.
The National Telecommunication Corporation hosts all federal government email on a single Zimbra server. During wartime it was offline. When it returns: inter-agency communications, ministerial correspondence, and internal coordination traffic all flow through one system.
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BREACH HISTORY
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Historical Breach Timeline
Pakistan's current exposure sits on top of a documented history of serious incidents.
| Date | Incident | Impact |
| 2019–2023 | NADRA insider data theft by employees | 2.7M citizen records sold (Argentina, Romania) |
| 2024 | NADRA breach public disclosure | Fraudulent IDs issued to Afghan nationals |
| 2025 | Global credential breach | 180M Pakistani internet user credentials |
| 2025 | SIM data leak | Federal ministers' call records exposed |
| 2025 | Afghan Cyber Army campaign | 100 high-profile .gov.pk sites defaced |
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DATA INVENTORY
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Data Inventory
| Category | Size | Key Contents |
| qau-full-dump/ | 6.6 MB | 200 pages, 484 posts, 603 media, staff directories |
| pu-full-dump/ | 8.3 MB | 101 files, 18,460 URLs, 19 departments |
| ckan-dump/ | 8.9 MB | 1,471 datasets, 36 users, 22 organizations |
| balochistan-wp-dump/ | 5.9 MB | 149 gov pages, 1,297 media, commissioners, budgets |
| pak-wp-dumps/ | 6.3 MB | SIT WP, LUMS phpinfo, admin pages |
| pak-universities/ | 2.5 MB | 7 university probes (LUMS, AIOU, UOS, others) |
| pak-deep-probe/ | 957 KB | Initial target reconnaissance |
| pak-priority/ | 216 KB | NADRA, NTC, NITB, FBR probes |
| pak-admin-panels/ | 32 KB | FSP, EP admin login analysis |
| TOTAL | 46 MB | 9 target categories |
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DETAILED ANNEXES
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Detailed Technical Annexes
Nine specialized reports cover each area of the operation in full technical depth.
Wartime Infrastructure Status57+ domains, status matrix, NADRA lockdown, infrastructure collapse analysis
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WordPress REST API ExposureQAU, Balochistan, SIT — 13.4 MB combined, admin correlation, user enumeration
View
University IntelligenceQAU, PU, LUMS, AIOU, UOS — full dump analysis, credential attack surface
View
Personnel Intelligence340+ named individuals, QAU staff tables, Gwadar Safe City candidates, PBX mapping
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Open Data CKAN1,471 datasets, 36 accounts, 22 organizations, election & census data
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Exposed Admin Panelsfsp.gov.pk and ep.gov.pk — attack vectors, ASP.NET trace exposure
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Server Configuration DisclosureLUMS phpinfo.php — full stack fingerprint, CVE surface, all server version leaks
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Balochistan Province Deep IntelligenceSingle-admin vulnerability, commissioners, Gwadar CPEC data, budget docs, legislation
View
Government Digital Infrastructure MapNADRA, NTC, NITB, FBR, SBP, PTA, SUPARCO, post-war priority targets
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DISCLAIMER
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Methodology & Scope
All data documented in this report was obtained through passive open-source intelligence techniques using publicly accessible interfaces. No authentication was bypassed, no vulnerability was exploited, and no unauthorized access was performed. All data was available without credentials at the time of collection.
Reconnaissance was conducted via proxychains4/Tor from anonymized infrastructure (CT105, 10.0.0.99). The operation window was 07:27–09:45 UTC on 01 March 2026.
ODINT publishes this research to support transparency, journalistic accountability, and informed public discourse on government digital security posture. Disclosure of this material is consistent with ODINT's Ethics Policy and Methodology.
Operation date: 01 March 2026 — ODINT Internal Classification: OSINT — CT105 Tor targets