Own-CNIC checks only · Reviewed 28 August 2026 · Sources named in every section
SIM Information in Pakistan: What the Official Checks Actually Show
SIM information in Pakistan comes down to one record: the SIMs registered against your own CNIC. PTA’s SIM Information System at cnic.sims.pk and the 668 SMS service both return that record as a count per operator — never a name, an address or a call log, and never for someone else’s number. This page walks through every field those checks return, what NADRA does and does not publish, and the same steps in Urdu.
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SIM Details Check: Every Field the Official Portal Shows You
An official SIM details check shows three things: how many SIMs are registered on your own CNIC, which operator issued each one, and whether your total sits inside the 8-SIM legal limit. It shows no names, no addresses and no call records, on any operator in Pakistan.
The fields you actually see
Three fields come back, and that is the entire output. A count, a split by company, and your standing against the legal cap. People expect a fourth field with a name in it, and the count check has no fourth field. The only code that prints a registered name is MNP texted to 667, and it prints the name of the SIM that sends it — never a stranger’s.
The total SIM count on your CNIC
One number: how many connections sit on your card today, across every network.
The breakdown by operator
The same total, split into a line for Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone and SCO. Warid sits on the Jazz line and Onic sits on the Ufone line. Telenor merged into PTML, Ufone’s parent, on 1 July 2026, and Telenor SIMs keep working and keep appearing in the count.
Your position against the 8-SIM limit
The Supreme Court of Pakistan capped it at eight per CNIC on 5 November 2015 — five voice and three data, counted across all operators. The widely repeated figure of six is wrong. The limit section of the main guide covers the cap and the 2024–2026 rule changes around it.
The fields no official check ever shows
This list is longer than the one above, and it is fixed by law rather than by a missing feature. No portal, app, franchise counter or SMS reply in Pakistan prints any of the five items below for another person’s CNIC or number. On your own side there is one narrow exception, covered under the owner-name heading.
The table sets each field against the reason it is absent.
| Field | Shown? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| SIM count on your CNIC | Shown | PTA holds the count and releases it to the CNIC holder |
| Operator breakdown | Shown | Part of the same count |
| Owner name | Not shown | Not public; only MNP to 667 shows the sending SIM’s own registered name |
| Home address | Not shown | Held by the operator, released only on a legal request |
| Call history | Not shown | Moves to police or a court, never to a website |
| Live location | Not shown | No public service holds it in any form |
| CNIC photo or family record | Not shown | NADRA publishes nothing after issuance |
Owner name
The count screen prints no name, not even your own — it is a counter, not a directory of people. To see the name a SIM in your own pocket is registered under, text the word MNP to 667 from that SIM. The reply lists its number, registered name, CNIC — often partly masked — IMSI, activation date and connection type, and it only ever describes the SIM that sent the message.
Home address
Your operator holds it in your file. It leaves that file only on a written legal request.
Call history
Released to an investigating officer under a case number, and to nobody else.
Live location
No lawful public route exists. Any page offering it is selling a story.
Any CNIC photo or family record
NADRA verifies identity when the SIM is issued and publishes nothing afterwards. DIRBS is the device and IMEI system, not a SIM-owner system — the two are often confused and they hold different things.
Reading your result correctly, step by step
A count on its own means little until you match it against the SIMs you can physically find. Most unpleasant surprises are old connections you forgot, but some are lines opened on your CNIC without you. Five steps separate the two.
Step 1 — Add the operator lines together
The lines should equal the total. If they do not, run the check again.
Step 2 — Match each line to a SIM you actually hold
Include the spare in the drawer and the one in an old handset.
Step 3 — Circle anything you do not recognise
Write the operator down. That is the only detail you need to carry.
Step 4 — Take that item to your operator’s franchise with your original CNIC
Your thumb on the scanner proves the record is yours to question.
Step 5 — Ask for it to be blocked and keep the complaint number
The complaint number is your proof if the line reappears.
Different words, same check
Four search phrases lead to one screen. People type them differently because they learned the words in different places, not because four separate services exist. Every phrase below ends at cnic.sims.pk or an SMS to 668, and the main guide shows both replies line by line.
“sim details check”
The most common wording. Same portal, same three fields.
“sim detail”
Singular, usually typed by someone checking one SIM. Same answer.
“sim card details”
Adds “card” and changes nothing. There is no separate card-level record to read.
“pakistani sim details”
Adds the country. The rules described here are Pakistani rules already.
One check, three fields, and not one of them is a name.
CNIC Information Check: What NADRA Does and Does Not Show
NADRA issues your CNIC and verifies your identity, but it runs no public page that turns a CNIC or a mobile number into a person’s name. CNIC information checks that actually work are limited to your own record, and you prove the record is yours with your own CNIC number and your own handset.
People also search for “check cnic details”, “cnic info.pk” and “cin number check” — every one of these points to the same record and the same answer on this page.
What a CNIC actually is
It is a 13-digit number that NADRA prints on a card carrying your name and photo. Those digits are the key every SIM in the country hangs off. The number tells a system where the card was issued and whose gender is recorded, and nothing more than that.
It is 13 digits, and most official forms want those digits with no dashes
The printed card shows dashes. The 668 SMS and cnic.sims.pk want them stripped out.
The first five digits point to the area where it was issued
They record the issuing district, not where you live today.
The last digit shows gender
One digit, and that is the extent of what it says about you.
NADRA issues it; PTA and the operators only use it for SIM registration
Three separate bodies, three separate jobs. None of them publishes your sim owner details to a website.
Checks you can run on your own CNIC today
Four routes are open and all four start from the card in your hand. Each returns the sim owner details tied to that one card. Two are remote — the website is free and the SMS costs about Rs 2 including tax — and two need you in person. None of them will run against a CNIC belonging to somebody else, which is the point of the design.
Route 1 — Open cnic.sims.pk, enter your 13 digits, solve the reCAPTCHA next to “Verify:”, click Submit, read the SIM count
PTA’s SIM Information System. Free, and it takes about a minute.
Route 2 — Open Messages, type your 13-digit CNIC with no dashes, send it to 668, read the reply
The same count, delivered by SMS to the handset you sent from.
Route 3 — Visit a NADRA centre in person with your original CNIC for your own identity record
This is the only place your identity record is discussed at all, and only with you.
Route 4 — Visit your operator’s own franchise with your CNIC and your thumb for biometric confirmation
The Biometric Verification System reads your thumb, then staff read out your full list with that operator.
What NADRA never publishes to a website
NADRA holds a great deal and releases almost none of it. Five things people search for every day are absent from every public page it runs, and that absence is deliberate policy rather than a gap waiting to be filled.
The table names each thing people expect from NADRA and what NADRA actually offers.
| What people search for | Does NADRA publish it? |
|---|---|
| A number-to-name page | No such page exists |
| An address lookup | Never published |
| A family-record lookup | Never published |
| A photo lookup | Never published |
| Third-party access for a website or app | Granted to nobody |
No number-to-name page
A phone number goes in and nothing comes out, because the service was never built.
No address lookup
Your address sits in your NADRA file and in your operator’s file. Neither one is a public page.
No family-record lookup
Family records are discussed at a NADRA counter with the person they belong to.
No photo lookup
The photo on your card is not searchable by anyone outside NADRA.
No third-party access of any kind
A site putting the NADRA name beside a search box is borrowing a name it has no right to use. No sim owner details reach it from NADRA.
NADRA verifies identity at issuance and never publishes it afterwards.
ID Card SIM Number Check Online: Same Rule, Different Words
“ID card” and “CNIC” name the same document, so an ID card SIM number check is the CNIC check under a different word. It returns the count of SIMs registered on your own ID card, split by operator. It returns nothing about anybody else, whichever of the two words you search.
ID card, CNIC, shanakhti card: one document, three names
Three words, one green card, one set of thirteen digits.
“ID card” is the everyday English word
What most people say out loud, and what most people type when they go looking.
“CNIC” is the official abbreviation, Computerised National Identity Card
The word NADRA prints on the card and the word every government form uses.
“Shanakhti card” is the everyday Urdu word
What the man at the franchise counter will ask you for.
All three carry the same 13 digits, and every official form wants those digits without dashes
Your card shows them as 61101-2345678-9. The portal wants 6110123456789.
People also type the portal’s address loosely — “cnic.sim.pak”, “cnic. sims. pk”, even “cnic.sims.apk” — every version means the same website, cnic.sims.pk, and there is no APK.
Run the ID card SIM check in six steps
PTA’s SIM Information System does this in under a minute, free, with no account.
Step 1 — Open cnic.sims.pk
The page is titled “SIM Information System” and shows two tabs.
Step 2 — Keep the CNIC tab selected
The second tab, Foreign ID, is only for foreign nationals living here.
Step 3 — Type the 13 digits from your ID card, with no dashes
The on-page example is 6110123456789. Copy that shape exactly.
Step 4 — Solve the reCAPTCHA beside the word “Verify:”
A Google reCAPTCHA sits on the form. Tick it and wait for the green mark.
Step 5 — Press Submit
One press. There is no login and no payment screen.
Step 6 — Read the SIM count and the operator-by-operator split
You get a total, then a line for each network. That is the whole result, and the sim owner details it covers are only ever your own.
The SMS version when you have no internet
The same answer arrives by text message on any handset, smart or not.
Step 1 — Open the Messages app
Start a new message on the SIM you are holding.
Step 2 — Type the 13 digits of your ID card, no dashes, nothing else
No name, no word, no extra number. Digits only.
Step 3 — Send the message to 668
668 is sender-bound. It reads the digits you typed and answers the SIM that sent them. The SMS costs about Rs 2 including tax.
Step 4 — Read the reply, which lists your total and your per-operator count
If a network shows a SIM you never bought, take your original ID card to that operator’s own franchise and ask for it to be blocked.
Your ID card number and your CNIC number are the same thirteen digits.
NADRA and SIM Data: What NADRA Actually Does
NADRA issues CNICs and confirms identity through biometrics; PTA and the operators handle SIM registration and the public SIM count. NADRA runs no SIM ownership page for the public, and it returns no photo, no family record and no address to any website. Pages using NADRA’s name for a number lookup are borrowing authority they do not hold.
Who does what: NADRA, PTA, the operators and the NCCIA
Four bodies touch your SIM, and each one stops at a different line. The table below shows where each line falls.
| Body | What it does | What it will not do |
|---|---|---|
| NADRA | Issues the CNIC, verifies identity at issuance | Run any public number-to-name lookup |
| PTA | Runs cnic.sims.pk and the 668 SMS service | Return a name, an address or a call record |
| Operators | Register SIMs against a CNIC, hold the subscriber file | Show your file to anyone but you or a lawful authority |
| NCCIA | Investigates cybercrime on a filed complaint | Hand you the raw record of the person you reported |
NADRA — issues the CNIC and verifies identity at issuance
Its job ends when your identity is confirmed. It never becomes a phone directory.
PTA — runs the SIM Information System at cnic.sims.pk and the 668 SMS service
Both return one thing: a count of SIMs on the thirteen digits you supplied.
Operators — register SIMs against a CNIC and hold the subscriber record
Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, Onic and SCO each keep their own file, and each shows it only after a thumb scan.
NCCIA — investigates cybercrime and misuse, on a filed complaint
The cybercrime helpline is 1799. It can lawfully do what no citizen may do alone.
How the Biometric Verification System (BVS) works
BVS is the thumb scanner on the franchise counter, and it is what ties a SIM to a person in Pakistan.
Step 1 — You go to your operator’s own franchise with your original CNIC
An original card, not a photocopy and not a picture on your phone.
Step 2 — The staff member enters your 13-digit CNIC
The same thirteen digits the PTA portal asks for, typed without dashes.
Step 3 — You place your thumb on the BVS scanner
The scan is matched against the fingerprint NADRA already holds for that card.
Step 4 — The scan is matched, and the SIM is registered to you and counted against your CNIC
From that moment the connection appears in your count, and the sim owner details for it name the card that was scanned. Proving a SIM is yours from start to finish is covered in the SIM ownership check guide.
DIRBS is a device system, not a SIM owner system
DIRBS answers a question about the handset. It says nothing about the person holding it.
What DIRBS checks: whether a handset is legally usable on Pakistani networks
Compliant or non-compliant. That is the entire verdict it gives.
What an IMEI is: the handset’s own serial number, not the SIM’s
Swap the SIM and the IMEI does not change. They are two separate things.
Why a device status tells you nothing about who owns a SIM
A phone can carry any SIM. The two records are not joined for public reading.
Why “IMEI to owner” searches fail for the same reason number-to-name searches fail
There is no public input anywhere that takes a device or a number and returns a person.
Three things NADRA will never hand to a website
People search for these three every day, and the answer is the same for all three.
Your CNIC photo
The picture on your card stays inside NADRA’s own systems.
Your family details
Family registration data is not released to any commercial page.
Any other person’s name or address
Not for a fee, not for a free trial, not for any reason a page can invent.
NADRA verifies people, PTA counts SIMs, and neither one runs a number-to-name lookup.
SIM Information and Sim Info: The Words People Search
“SIM information” and “sim info” point at one lawful answer: the SIM record attached to your own CNIC. The official source is the PTA SIM Information System at cnic.sims.pk. Every variation people type — sim info pk, pak sim information, sim card information — lands on that same single answer.
The one source behind every spelling
Five different phrases, one destination. None of them opens a different door.
“sim information” — the full phrase
The words printed at the top of PTA’s own page, “SIM Information System”.
“sim info” — the short form
Typed by people in a hurry. It reaches the same portal.
“pak sim information” and “pak sim info” — the same phrase with a country prefix
Adding “pak” narrows the phrase to Pakistan. It does not add any new service.
“sim card information” — the same phrase with the word card added
The card in your phone and the record on your CNIC are the same connection.
“sims information system” and “sim information systems” — the plurals
Both land on the same page. So do “sin information system” and “sin info”, where the m slips into an n.
“pmd sim information” — letters people bolt on
“pmd sim information system” adds nothing either. Behind both sits the one count at cnic.sims.pk.
“simdata info”, “simdata information” and “sim info 2024” — squashed spellings and year tags
The year changes, the answer does not. “www.sim info.com” is the same search typed as a web address; the real address is cnic.sims.pk.
“same information” and “sin number details pakistan” — autocorrect at work
Phones turn sim into same or sin. The question underneath is unchanged.
All of them resolve to the PTA SIM Information System at cnic.sims.pk
One portal, one input of thirteen digits, one count of your own sim owner details.
Fields the SIM Information System actually returns
The result screen is short. Your sim owner details on that portal come down to three lines.
Your total count of registered SIMs
One number at the top, covering every network at once.
The breakdown of that count by operator
A line for each network where you hold a connection — Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone or SCO, with Warid counted under Jazz and Onic under Ufone.
Nothing else: no name, no address, no call record
The portal was built to count, not to describe. Anything more would need a court or the NCCIA. The number details guide walks through the result screen field by field.
Reading your result without panic
A number higher than you expected usually has a dull explanation. Work through it in order.
Step 1 — Read the total number at the top of the result
Remember the ceiling: eight SIMs per CNIC, five voice plus three data.
Step 2 — Match each operator line against a SIM you actually use
Count the old ones too. A data SIM in a drawer still holds its place.
Step 3 — Write down any operator line you cannot account for
Write the network name and the number of SIMs it shows. That note is what the counter staff need.
Step 4 — Take that note and your original CNIC to that operator’s own franchise and ask for the unknown SIM to be blocked
Their own franchise, not a roadside stall. Your thumb goes on the scanner and the sim owner details on your card are checked in front of you.
Step 5 — If the franchise does not act, file a complaint at complaint.pta.gov.pk
Keep the reference number the complaint desk gives you. It is what moves the case forward.
Every spelling of “sim information” resolves to the same CNIC-bound record.
Urdu Mein: Sim Kis Ke Naam Hai Aur Kaise Check Karein
Only your own CNIC opens your own SIM record. Apne CNIC par kitni SIM registered hain, yeh aap khud check kar sakte hain; kisi doosre ka naam kisi bhi tareeqe se nahin milta. The two official routes are the cnic.sims.pk website and an SMS to 668, and neither accepts a stranger’s number.
Apne CNIC pe kitni SIM hain — website ka tarika
Chhe qadam, do minute, aur ginti screen par aa jati hai. Yeh aap ke apne sim owner details hain, kisi aur ke nahin.
Step 1 — cnic.sims.pk kholein (open cnic.sims.pk in any browser)
Page ka naam “SIM Information System” hai aur ise PTA chalata hai. Na account, na app.
Step 2 — CNIC tab par hi rahein (stay on the CNIC tab)
Doosra tab Foreign ID ka hai, ghair-mulkiyon ke liye. Pakistani card wale wahin rahein.
Step 3 — 13 hindse ka CNIC likhein, dash na lagayein, misaal 6110123456789 (type 13 digits, no dashes)
Poore terah hindse. Dash lagaya to form qubool nahin karega.
Step 4 — “Verify:” ke saath wala reCAPTCHA solve karein (solve the reCAPTCHA)
Google ka reCAPTCHA usi label ke saath hai. Tick karein aur hara nishan aane dein.
Step 5 — Submit ka button dabayein (click Submit)
Ek hi button hai. Jawab usi page par khul jata hai.
Step 6 — Total aur har company ki alag ginti parhein (read the total and the per-operator split)
Pehle ghar ke handset gin lein, phir list parhein. Jo line samajh na aaye, wahi asal masla hai.
SMS ka tarika — 668
Jis ke paas net nahin, us ke liye yehi tarika hai. Jawab usi SIM par aata hai jis se message bheja gaya.
Step 1 — Messages app kholein (open Messages)
Aam SMS wali app, WhatsApp nahin.
Step 2 — Sirf apna 13 hindse ka CNIC type karein, aur kuch nahin (type only your 13-digit CNIC)
Na naam likhein, na koi lafz. Sirf hindse.
Step 3 — 668 par bhej dein (send to 668)
Teen hindse recipient ke khane mein. Kharcha taqreeban Rs 2, tax shamil.
Step 4 — Jawab mein SIM ki ginti parhein (read the SIM count in the reply)
Total aata hai aur har company ki alag line. Had aath SIM hai: paanch voice aur teen data, jo Supreme Court of Pakistan ne 5 November 2015 ko muqarrar ki. Jo log “chhe SIM” kehte hain, woh ghalat hai.
Number kis network ka hai — 76367
Yeh alag sawal hai aur is ka jawab sirf network ka naam hai. Kisi ke sim owner details is se nahin milte.
Step 1 — Messages app kholein (open Messages)
Wahi aam SMS wali app.
Step 2 — N likhein, space dein, phir 11 hindse ka number, jaise N 03001234567
Bara N, ek space, phir number. Na dash, na country code.
Step 3 — 76367 par bhejein (send to 76367)
Paanch hindse recipient ke khane mein.
Step 4 — Rs. 2 jama tax kat-ta hai, balance rakhein (Rs. 2 plus tax is charged)
Yeh qeemat PTA ne khud apne portal par likhi hai.
Step 5 — Jawab mein sirf network ka naam aata hai, kisi shakhs ka naam nahin (the reply names the network only, never a person)
Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, Onic ya SCO. Bas itna hi. Yeh service is liye bani ke portability ke baad prefix se network ka pata nahin chalta.
Sim kiske naam hai — asal jawab
Zyada tar log kisi doosre ke sim owner details dhoondte hue yahan pahunchte hain. Seedhi baat yeh hai.
Kisi bhi website par doosre ka naam nahin milta (no website returns another person’s name)
Jo page naam dikhane ka dawa kare, us ke paas ya purani leaked list hai ya kuch bhi nahin. Operator ka record us tak nahin jata. Apni SIM ka apna record dekhna ho to usi SIM se MNP likh kar 667 par bhejein — jawab mein us SIM ka number, registered naam aur CNIC (aksar kuch hindse chhupe hue) aata hai, sirf bhejne wali SIM ke liye.
NADRA koi public number-to-name lookup nahin chalata (NADRA runs no such lookup)
NADRA CNIC jari karta hai aur shanakht ki tasdeeq karta hai. Number daal kar naam nikalne wali koi awami service us ke paas hai hi nahin.
PECA 2016 ki dafa 16 mein 3 saal tak qaid ya 50 lakh rupay tak jurmana, ya dono (PECA 2016, section 16)
Kisi doosre ki shanakhti maloomat bina ijazat hasil karna, bechna, apne paas rakhna, aage bhejna ya istemal karna jurm hai.
Shikayat NCCIA helpline 1799 par ya complaint.pta.gov.pk par darj karayein (report on 1799 or the PTA complaint desk)
Agar koi number tang kar raha hai ya fraud kar raha hai, yehi do darwaze hain. Screenshot aur tareekh sambhal kar rakhein.
Yaad rakhein: apni SIM ki ginti cnic.sims.pk aur 668 se milti hai, network ka naam 76367 se. Kisi doosre ka naam, CNIC ya address kahin se nahin milta — na website se, na app se, na kisi paise wale “report” se.
Apne CNIC ka record aap khud dekh sakte hain, kisi doosre ka nahin.
Where to go next
The main guide covers what to do when an unknown number keeps calling. Two sibling guides go deeper: “sim database” and “sim data” claims, and SIM safety and common problems.