Check the Real Pakistan Embassy Riyadh Website: pakembassyksa.com Now Opens a Gambling Site

Short answer: pakembassyksa.com is no longer the website of the Pakistan Embassy in Riyadh. When we tested it at 2:56 am PKT on 6 November 2026, it sent us through two redirects to a gambling page. Do not open it, and do not enter any details there. The real embassy website is pakistaninksa.com, and the real Consulate General in Jeddah is parepjeddah.org. Both are listed on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' overseas missions page. The embassy's UAN is 920051444.

Old addresses travel a long way. pakembassyksa.com still turns up in WhatsApp forwards, old forum posts and saved bookmarks of Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia. Workers, families and Umrah pilgrims all look for the embassy online, often in a hurry. This guide shows what we found, how to check any embassy website in a minute, and what to do if you already used the old address.

pakembassyksa.com now leads to a gambling site

We tested pakembassyksa.com three ways on 6 November 2026, and every test ended on a gambling page. The address does not show any embassy content. It forwards visitors away at once, so nothing you see after typing it is from the Government of Pakistan.

We used a standard web tool that follows every redirect and records each step. We tried the plain address, the secure https address and the www address. The result was the same each time:

1. pakembassyksa.com answered with a "301 Moved Permanently" code, which is an instruction to go to another address.
2. That second address also answered "301" and forwarded us again.
3. The third address loaded with a normal "200 OK" code. Its web address itself says, in Indonesian, that it is a list of online gambling dealers.

We stopped there. We did not read the gambling page, and we are not naming or linking the addresses in the chain, because sending readers there would only help them. The test took a few seconds and needed no clicking.

The address did belong to the embassy once. Old copies kept by a public web archive show the embassy's own website on pakembassyksa.com as late as January 2020, with menus for passports, visas and attestation. The same archive shows the address giving errors through 2023 and forwarding visitors elsewhere since early 2024. The .com registry's public record shows the name was first registered in January 2013 and its record was last changed on 31 December 2025. Public records do not show who holds it now or how it changed hands, so we make no claim about that.

The real Pakistan mission websites in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan has two missions in Saudi Arabia that serve the public: the Embassy in Riyadh and the Consulate General in Jeddah. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs lists their websites as pakistaninksa.com and parepjeddah.org. Use only these, and get them from the ministry's page.

We opened the ministry's overseas missions page on 6 November 2026. Under "Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)" it links to pakistaninksa.com. Under "Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)" it links to parepjeddah.org. Both sites loaded normally for us. A separate mission in Jeddah, the Permanent Mission to the OIC, has its own site, but it deals with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, not passports or visas.

One thing confuses people. MOFA also has short pages for missions on its own site, such as mofa.gov.pk/jeddah. But mofa.gov.pk/riyadh did not open a Riyadh page for us. It sent us back to the MOFA home page, which is a harmless redirect inside the government site. So for Riyadh, go through the overseas missions list, not a guessed address.

Here are the contact details as the missions publish them on their own websites, read on 6 November 2026.

We did not call these numbers. For the full list of emergency lines, including the Jeddah landlines, see our page on Pakistan Embassy Saudi Arabia emergency numbers. The numbers there match what the missions show today.

Why old government web addresses fall into other hands

A web address ending in .com is rented, usually a year at a time, from a private company. When a mission moves to a new address, the old one can lapse, be passed on or be sold. Whoever holds it next can point it anywhere, and old links still bring visitors.

Addresses ending in .gov.pk are different. Only government bodies can hold them in Pakistan. But many Pakistani missions abroad use .com or .org addresses, including both missions in Saudi Arabia. So "it is not .gov.pk" does not mean a mission site is fake, and a .com address that looks official does not mean it is real.

Why would anyone want an old embassy address? Three reasons:

• Traffic. Old links in forwards, forums and bookmarks keep sending people to it for years.
• Search ranking. Search engines may still trust an address that other sites linked to for a long time.
• Trust. A visitor who expects the embassy is less careful. Today the address only forwards to gambling. Tomorrow its holder could put up a page that looks like an appointment form or a fee page.

That last point is the real risk. A fake passport or attestation page could ask for your passport scan, iqama copy, CNIC number or a card payment. That is why it is worth checking the address before you type anything.

Check any Pakistan embassy website in five steps

Start from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not from a search result or a forwarded link. Then match the address letter by letter, check that emails end in @mofa.gov.pk, and never pay through a link sent on WhatsApp.

1. Open mofa.gov.pk yourself. Type it into the browser. Go to the overseas missions page and find the country and city.
2. Click the mission's link from that page. This takes you to the right site even if it is a .com or .org address.
3. Match the address in the browser bar. For Riyadh it should read pakistaninksa.com, and for Jeddah parepjeddah.org. Look for extra letters, hyphens or a different ending.
4. Check the email addresses. The Saudi missions publish emails ending in @mofa.gov.pk. A Gmail or Hotmail address asking for your documents is a warning sign.
5. Book only through the mission's own appointment link. Riyadh links to appointment.pakistaninksa.com and Jeddah to appointment.parepjeddah.org, both from their own home pages.

Keep two more rules. First, do not send passport or iqama scans to any website or number you found in a forward. Second, pay fees only in the way the mission's own site describes, at its counter or through its own system. If a page asks you to transfer money to a personal account, stop. Our guide to checking an online store before you pay uses the same habits for shopping sites.

What to do if you already entered details or paid

Act in this order: stop the money first, then report, then tell the mission. If you paid by card, call your bank now on the number printed on the card. Then report to NCCIA, Pakistan's cybercrime agency, and email the embassy with what you sent.

1. Call your bank. Ask it to block the card and raise a fraud complaint. In Pakistan, State Bank rules give banks 30 days to give a final reply on a fraud complaint. Our guide on bank fraud complaint deadlines explains the clock. If your card is from a Saudi bank, call that bank the same way.
2. Write down what you sent. Note the date, the address you used, the amount and what documents you uploaded. Take screenshots if you still have them.
3. Report to NCCIA. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency takes complaints online at complaint.nccia.gov.pk. Our NCCIA complaint form guide explains each field and the route for overseas Pakistanis.
4. Tell the mission. Email info-parepriyadh@mofa.gov.pk for Riyadh or parepjeddah@mofa.gov.pk for Jeddah. Say which documents you shared so staff know your passport details may be misused.
5. Check the SIMs on your CNIC. If you shared your CNIC, check that no new SIM was issued in your name. Our guide to checking SIMs registered on your CNIC shows how.

If the money was lost inside Saudi Arabia, also report it to the Saudi police through the normal local channel. And if your passport was misused or lost along the way, our lost Pakistani passport abroad guide covers the next steps.

Where to get Riyadh and Jeddah consular services instead

Every service people looked for on the old address is on the two real sites. Riyadh lists consular services from 7 am to 3 pm and tokens from 7 am to 12 noon. Jeddah lists office hours of 8 am to 4 pm, Sunday to Thursday.

Passport, NICOP, attestation and welfare pages sit on pakistaninksa.com and on parepjeddah.org. The Jeddah consulate describes itself as serving Pakistanis in the western region of Saudi Arabia, which includes Makkah and Madinah. For Jeddah appointments, our guide to the Jeddah consulate online appointment walks through the booking. For passport fees paid in riyals, see our Pakistani passport fee in Saudi Arabia page.

The Jeddah consulate's home page also gives an email for passport complaints run by the Ministry of Interior: complaints.passport@interior.gov.pk. Use that if a passport case is stuck, not any address you found in a forward.

If you share embassy details in a family or community group, share pakistaninksa.com and parepjeddah.org, and ask the group admin to remove old messages carrying pakembassyksa.com. One corrected message saves others from the same click.

Common questions

Is pakembassyksa.com the Pakistan Embassy in Riyadh?

No. It once carried the embassy's website, but when we tested it on 6 November 2026 it forwarded visitors to a gambling page. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs lists pakistaninksa.com as the Riyadh embassy's website.

What is the official website of the Pakistan Embassy in Saudi Arabia?

pakistaninksa.com for the Embassy in Riyadh and parepjeddah.org for the Consulate General in Jeddah. Both are linked from the overseas missions page on mofa.gov.pk.

Is a mission website fake if it does not end in .gov.pk?

Not always. Both Saudi missions use .com and .org addresses. The test is whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs links to it from its overseas missions page, not the ending of the address.

I opened pakembassyksa.com. Is my phone infected?

Opening it only forwards you to another page. The bigger risk is entering details or downloading anything. If you did, run your phone's security check, change any password you typed, and follow the steps above.

What is the Pakistan Embassy Riyadh phone number?

The embassy's own site lists UAN 920051444 and the main line +966 11 488 7272. The Jeddah consulate's 24/7 lines are +966 56 387 0732 and +966 54 209 9349.

Where do I report a fake embassy website?

Report money or data loss to NCCIA at complaint.nccia.gov.pk, and email the mission so it knows. If you paid, call your bank first.

How we verified this

What we checked, where we read it, and what we could not confirm.

Last checked on 6 November 2026, between 2:56 am and 3:00 am PKT. We tested pakembassyksa.com with a redirect-following web request on its http, https and www addresses. The mission websites are from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs overseas missions page. Riyadh contacts are from the embassy home page and its Community Welfare Wing page. Jeddah contacts are from the consulate home page and its contact page. The domain dates are from the public .com registry record. We did not call any number.