Apple has added Pakistan’s domestic payment network PayPak to the iOS 27 backend code, providing the strongest evidence yet that Apple Pay is preparing to launch in the country for the first time. Apple Pay currently operates in more than 90 countries worldwide but remains absent from most of South Asia. Apple Pay would enter a market where Easypaisa, JazzCash, SadaPay, NayaPay, and the recently acquired Keenu dominate mobile payments, but none of them offer the seamless hardware-level NFC integration that Apple Pay provides through the iPhone’s Secure Element chip. PayPak sits inside iOS 27 right now, following the same integration pattern Apple has used for every country launch in its history. The question is no longer whether Apple Pay is coming to Pakistan, but when Apple will flip the switch.