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SIM Information in Pakistan: What You Can Check With a Number or CNIC
SIM information in Pakistan means three checkable facts: a number’s network, a SIM’s own registration status, and the count of SIMs against a CNIC. It never means a stranger’s name or address, because no lawful service returns those from a number. Every official check sits below with its code, cost and source, starting from the record you already own: Check SIM Owner Details Pakistan.
With a bare number, text it to 76367 and the reply, for about Rs 2, names its current network. With the SIM in your hand, text MNP to 667 for that SIM’s own registration status. With your CNIC, SMS it to 668 (about Rs 2) or open the free portal cnic.sims.pk for your per-network SIM count. Anything beyond that crosses Section 16 of PECA 2016: up to 3 years in prison, a fine of up to Rs 5 million, or both.
Key takeaways
- A number returns its network only: text it to 76367, about Rs 2.
- Your own SIM: text MNP to 667 for its registration status, at standard SMS rate.
- Your CNIC: 668 (about Rs 2) or the free portal cnic.sims.pk for the count per network.
- Nobody, not PTA, not NADRA, not any app, offers a name for a number. Attempting it is an offence.
- Looking for the official service itself? Read our cnic.sims.pk portal guide.
This page maps the whole territory once: what each input lawfully returns, what NADRA actually holds, what the checks cost, and which “SIM information” promises are simply fiction. Pick your input and you are two minutes from a real answer.
On this page
What does SIM information mean in Pakistan?
SIM information in Pakistan is the registration data held against every SIM: which CNIC it is registered to, its status, and how many SIMs a CNIC carries. It is a compliance record, not a directory. The rules trace back to the Supreme Court’s 5 November 2015 order that capped registration at 8 SIMs per CNIC.
Three different things hide inside the phrase, and each has its own official check. First, a number’s network: which operator serves it today, which matters because ported numbers no longer match their prefixes. Second, a SIM’s own registration: whether the SIM in your hand is properly registered and against which masked identity. Third, a CNIC’s SIM count: how many voice and data SIMs each network has issued against your identity card. PTA’s telecom indicators put the country at 208,057,255 cellular subscribers as of June 2026, and every one of those SIMs lives in this registry.
What the registry never does is answer the reverse question. It will not tell anyone who a number belongs to. Identity flows one way, towards the person the record describes. If what you actually wanted is the SIM Information System itself, the PTA-backed service behind 668, our cnic.sims.pk portal guide walks through every screen, step by step. This page covers the wider question: what any input, number, SIM or CNIC, can lawfully return.
SIM information with a number: what a bare number returns
A bare mobile number returns exactly one piece of SIM information in Pakistan: its current network. Text the number to 76367 and the reply, at about Rs 2, names the operator serving it today. Our 76367 network check guide covers the format and the edge cases. That check exists because porting made prefixes unreliable: an 0300 number may live on any network now, and franchise staff run this exact lookup before touching a ported number.
Everything else people hope a number will return, a name, a CNIC, an address, is not on offer anywhere. Not from PTA, not from NADRA, not from any operator counter, and not from any website or app, whatever its search box claims. The registry that could answer has no public doorway for that question, and the law prosecutes the attempt itself:
“Whoever obtains, sells, possesses, transmits or uses another person’s identity information without authorization shall be punished.” Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016, Section 16.
The penalty runs to up to 3 years in prison, a fine of up to Rs 5 million, or both, and the first verb is obtains: the buyer sits inside the sentence next to the seller. Our PECA 2016 legal guide takes the section apart clause by clause. And if your search was really “who owns this number”, the full honest treatment of that dead end lives on our SIM owner details by number page. When a number is causing you real trouble, harassment or fraud, skip the lookup fantasy and take your evidence to the NCCIA on 1799, where lawful tracing actually happens.
Your own SIM: text MNP to 667
The second slice of SIM information is about a SIM you physically hold. Text the letters MNP to 667 from that SIM, at standard SMS rate, and the reply describes that SIM’s own registration: its status and the masked identity it is registered against. Because the message must come from the SIM itself, the check cannot be pointed at anyone else’s number, which is precisely the design.
It is the right tool for a SIM you found in a drawer, inherited from a family member, or bought years ago and forgot. It settles the practical question “is this SIM registered, and does it belong to my record?” before you rely on it for banking, wallets or anything tied to your identity. The difference between this check and the CNIC-wide one confuses people daily, so we keep a short comparison at 667 versus 668: 667 answers for one SIM in your hand, 668 answers for every SIM against your CNIC.
SIM information by CNIC: 668 and cnic.sims.pk
The CNIC route is the widest window the law allows, and it is still only a window onto your own record. SMS your 13-digit CNIC number, no dashes, to 668 (about Rs 2) and the reply lists how many SIMs each network has registered against it. The same record is free on the portal cnic.sims.pk, which also works from abroad with a NICOP or POC, the route overseas Pakistanis actually use. Our 668 SIM check guide shows a real reply and what each line means.
The count matters because of the cap: 8 SIMs per CNIC, split as 5 voice and 3 data, in force since the Supreme Court’s 5 November 2015 order. If the reply shows a SIM you do not recognise, that is not trivia, it is someone else’s activity riding on your identity. The fix is a visit to that operator’s franchise with your original CNIC, where disowning a SIM costs at most Rs 200, a cap PTA set in writing. Two timing rules apply since PTA’s advisory of 24 May 2026: a newly transferred or disowned SIM carries a 365-day lock before it can move again, so the record you clean today stays clean.
For registration questions beyond the count, PTA’s helpline 0800-55055 and its WhatsApp Digital Assistant on 0315-0055055, launched 26 February 2026, both answer for free. Neither will identify a number’s owner for you, and that consistency is the point: every official channel answers about your identity, to you.
Does NADRA give SIM information with a number?
No. NADRA issues the CNIC and runs the biometric matching used when a SIM is sold, but it offers no public SIM lookup of any kind. SIM records sit with PTA and the mobile operators, and none of them turns a number into a name. Even PTA’s WhatsApp Digital Assistant, launched 26 February 2026, answers registration questions without ever identifying a number’s owner.
The confusion is understandable because NADRA sits underneath the whole system. When you buy a SIM, the franchise takes your fingerprint and NADRA’s servers confirm you are the CNIC holder; that biometric handshake is why the registry is trustworthy at all. But NADRA’s product is identity, not telecoms. It can tell an operator “this fingerprint matches this CNIC”. It holds no directory mapping mobile numbers to citizens that the public can query, and its helpline 051-111-786-100 handles CNIC and NICOP matters, not SIM queries.
So the search phrase “NADRA SIM information with number” describes a product that does not exist. Any website dressed in NADRA’s name that promises a name from a number is trading on the brand, not the database. The division of labour is clean: NADRA verifies who you are, PTA regulates the SIM registry, operators hold their own subscriber records, and the only public outputs are the three checks on this page. Where your CNIC itself is the worry, lost, copied or misused, our CNIC tracking guide covers what is actually checkable.
Every SIM information check, compared
One table, the whole lawful landscape. If a service claims to deliver anything outside these rows, it is not reading the registry.
| Your input | Lawful output | Cost | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any mobile number | Its current network, nothing more | About Rs 2 | SMS the number to 76367 |
| The SIM in your hand | That SIM’s own registration status | Standard SMS | SMS MNP to 667 |
| Your CNIC, by SMS | SIM count per network on your CNIC | About Rs 2 | SMS CNIC to 668 |
| Your CNIC, NICOP or POC online | The same count, works from abroad | Free | cnic.sims.pk portal |
| A stranger’s number, hoping for a name | Nothing. No lawful product exists | Offence under Section 16 | No source, anywhere |
Print it, screenshot it, send it to the family group. The last row is the one that saves people money and trouble: there is no fifth service hiding behind a paywall.
The sites that sell “SIM information”
Search any of these phrases and the results fill with sites promising “complete SIM information” for any number: name, address, family tree. Every one of them fails the same test: the registry has no public doorway, so whatever their box returns is not registry data. It is recycled leak fragments, invented filler, or a form built to harvest the details you type in. The pattern is old enough to have a graveyard: as of 11 August 2026, once-famous names like paksim.ga and pakdata.cf no longer resolve at all, their free domains gone with the registry that issued them. We keep the full post-mortem on our pak sim ga page, and the store-app version of the same trick is dissected in our SIM owner details apps review.
The tell is always the promise itself. Official checks answer narrow questions about your own identity, instantly and for pennies. Fiction answers any question about anyone, for a fee or for your data. If a seller offers call records or owner names, that is the trade the NCCIA exists to prosecute: report it on 1799 rather than testing it.
Frequently asked questions
How can I check SIM information with a number?
Text the number to 76367 and the reply, for about Rs 2, names its current network. That is the only SIM information a bare number lawfully returns in Pakistan. No service, free or paid, turns a stranger’s number into a name, CNIC or address, and attempting that is an offence under Section 16 of PECA 2016.
Can I check SIM information with number online for free?
Online, the free official tool is cnic.sims.pk, and it answers for your own CNIC only, listing your SIM count per network. For someone else’s number, the only lawful check is 76367 by SMS, which names the network and nothing else. Websites promising more than that are not reading any official database.
Does NADRA provide SIM information with a number?
No. NADRA runs the identity registry and the biometric matching used when SIMs are sold, while PTA and the operators hold the SIM records. Neither side offers a public name-from-number lookup, and NADRA’s helpline 051-111-786-100 handles CNIC matters, not SIM queries. Sites wearing the NADRA name for number lookups are misusing it.
How many SIMs can be registered on one CNIC?
Eight in total: five voice and three data SIMs, a cap in force since the Supreme Court’s order of 5 November 2015. Text your CNIC to 668 (about Rs 2) or open cnic.sims.pk free to see your count per network, and disown anything you do not recognise for a fee capped at Rs 200.
Can I check my SIM information from abroad?
Yes. The portal cnic.sims.pk is free and works from outside Pakistan with a NICOP or POC as well as a CNIC. The 668 SMS route needs a Pakistani SIM, so the portal is the practical path for overseas Pakistanis who want to see how many SIMs their identity carries.
What does a SIM information check cost?
The cnic.sims.pk portal is completely free, and it works from abroad. The SMS checks bill as ordinary texts: 668, 667 and 76367 each cost about Rs 2. Anyone charging more for “complete SIM information” is not selling registry access, because no paid registry access exists for the public.
Roman Urdu mein
SIM information ka matlab Pakistan mein teen cheezen hain: number ka network, SIM ki apni registration, aur CNIC par SIMs ki ginti. Kisi ajnabi ka naam number se nikalna mumkin nahi, na kisi app se, na NADRA se. Aisi koshish PECA 2016 ke Section 16 ke tehat jurm hai: 3 saal tak qaid, Rs 50 lakh tak jurmana, ya dono.
Number ka network: usay 76367 par SMS karein, taqreeban Rs 2. Apni SIM: MNP likh kar 667 par bhejein, aam SMS rate par. Apna CNIC: 668 par SMS (taqreeban Rs 2) ya muft portal cnic.sims.pk, jo bairoon-e-mulk NICOP ya POC ke sath bhi chalta hai. Naam bechne wali har website ya to purana leak dikhati hai ya jaali data.
Written and reviewed by Muhammad Hamza, founder and editor of CnicSimInfo. Sources: the PECA 2016 statute, PTA‘s published channels and telecom indicators, and NADRA’s public helplines, re-verified quarterly. Last reviewed: 11 August 2026. See our Editorial Standards and all 12 official methods.