Pak SIM Data originally referred to the leaked 2013 NADRA/PTA biometric dataset that circulated online after a breach at a SIM verification vendor. Today the term is used loosely for any tool that returns Pakistan SIM owner details. This guide explains what genuine Pak SIM data lookup is, why most “Pak SIM Data” websites are still serving twelve-year-old leaked records, and how to get the same information accurately — free — through PTA’s official 668 SMS service and the cnic.sims.pk portal. For a broader overview of how SIM ownership verification works in Pakistan, see SIM information Pakistan.
What is Pak SIM Data?
“Pak SIM Data” is a colloquial term, not an official product. It became popular as a search query when copies of the 2013 NADRA/PTA biometric leak began circulating on file-sharing networks and were repackaged as searchable websites and Telegram bots.
The leak itself contained a snapshot of Pakistani SIM registrations from roughly 2010–2013: registered owner names, CNICs, mobile numbers, and biometric metadata for tens of millions of SIMs. Once that data escaped, dozens of unofficial sites built lookup tools on top of it — searching by number, CNIC, or name. For context on what an official, current version of this data actually looks like, see Pak SIM Data official.
In current usage, “Pak SIM Data” means three different things depending on who’s searching:
- The leaked 2013 dataset itself — the historical archive most third-party sites still query.
- Any current SIM owner lookup service — a generic synonym for SIM verification, including the official PTA channels.
- A specific scraper site by that name — several domains have used variations of “paksimdata” in their URLs, some of which have been blocked by PTA and reappeared under new names.
The important entity to remember is SVMS — PTA’s Subscriber Verification Management System. SVMS is the live, biometrically backed source of truth for Pakistani SIM registrations, synced in real time with NADRA’s MBVS. When you want Pak SIM data that’s actually current, SVMS (accessed via 668, 667, or cnic.sims.pk) is what you want — not a scraper site running on twelve-year-old leaked records. For a live view of what’s registered to your number, see live SIM tracker.
Is Pak SIM Data legal?
Using your own CNIC’s PTA records is legal. That’s exactly what 668, 667, and cnic.sims.pk are designed for. PTA encourages citizens to audit their own SIM registrations periodically — it’s how dealer fraud and identity misuse get caught.
Using leaked Pak SIM Data to look up strangers is not legal. Section 6 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 prohibits unauthorised access to personal identity information, which is exactly what the leaked dataset represents. The 2013 records were never meant to be public, and querying them — even on a third-party site that hosts them — is the same legal category as using stolen identity data.
There’s a grey zone for some users: dealers performing customer due diligence, employers verifying staff identity, landlords screening tenants. None of these justifies looking up someone’s records without their consent. The lawful path in each case is to ask the person to run their own 668 check and share the result, or to obtain their explicit written permission to verify through official channels. For a clear comparison of what each official method covers, see 667 vs 668 Pakistan.
This is also why third-party “Pak SIM Data” sites keep disappearing periodically. PTA issues notices to hosting providers, the sites go down, and within weeks they reappear under new domains. The cycle has been running for years. The sites that survive longest are usually the ones that quietly disable themselves whenever PTA enforcement activity picks up.
Compliance note: You can lawfully check SIMs registered against your own CNIC. Looking up another person’s records without consent may violate Section 6 of PECA 2016.
Why Pak SIM Data sites are usually inaccurate
The 2013 dataset is now twelve years old. In that time, most of the SIMs in it have changed status in ways the static leak cannot reflect:
- Re-verified SIMs have updated owner bindings after the 2014, 2017, and 2021 PTA re-verification campaigns. The leaked record may show a previous owner.
- Blocked or released SIMs are no longer active but still appear in the leak. A scraper site might tell you a number is “registered to X” when that SIM was deactivated five years ago.
- Reassigned numbers — Pakistani operators recycle numbers after a release period. The leak shows the original owner; the current owner is someone different entirely.
- Post-2014 activations simply aren’t in the leak at all. Any SIM activated after the leak’s snapshot date — which is the majority of SIMs in use today — will return “no record found” or, worse, fabricated data padded in by the scraper site to look like a hit.
- MNP-ported numbers show the wrong network in the leak. A number that was Mobilink in 2013 might be Telenor today via Mobile Number Portability.
The accuracy gap between leaked Pak SIM Data and official PTA records is the difference between an archived snapshot and a live system. PTA’s SVMS updates within minutes of any biometric activation or status change. The 2013 leak updates never.
How to get the same info accurately — the official PTA way
Three free, official methods deliver what users actually want from “Pak SIM Data” searches:
| What you want to know | Use | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Count of SIMs on your own CNIC | 668 SMS with your CNIC | ~30 sec |
| Owner of the SIM in your hand | 667 SMS with “MNP” text | ~30 sec |
| Full PTA record with dates and status | cnic.sims.pk portal | ~1 min |
These are the channels PTA actually maintains. They query live SVMS data, return biometrically verified results, and cost nothing beyond standard SMS charges. The pages for the 668 method and the 667 method cover the step-by-step for each. For a direct side-by-side on when to use which service, see 667 vs 668 Pakistan.
Compared to a scraper site, the official channels give you fewer fields but every field is current. A scraper site might return “name + address + family details + WhatsApp profile” — but most of those fields are either invented or twelve years stale. PTA returns name, CNIC, network, activation date, and biometric status, and every field is real.
Pak SIM Data check by CNIC — the right way
To check Pak SIM data against your own CNIC, the correct method is the 668 SMS service:
- From any active Pakistani SIM, open the SMS app.
- Type your 13-digit CNIC with no dashes or spaces.
- Send to 668.
- Wait 30 seconds for the reply.
The reply lists how many SIMs are registered on your CNIC across each of the five networks — Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, and SCO. For the full owner-name-and-activation-date view, log into the cnic.sims.pk portal and verify via the OTP sent to one of your registered numbers.
What the official method beats from any scraper site: it’s current, it’s biometrically backed, and it doesn’t expose your CNIC to a third party who might log and resell it. For the complete CNIC audit walkthrough, see the CNIC SIM check guide.
Pak SIM Data check by number
This is the question that drives most “Pak SIM Data” searches, and the honest answer is uncomfortable: there is no public way to look up an arbitrary number’s owner.
What does work:
- Your own SIM in your hand. Text
MNPto 667 from that SIM. You’ll get the registered owner. Full walkthrough: SIM owner details via 667. - The network of any number. Send the number to 76367. You’ll get the operator (useful with MNP-ported numbers).
- Numbers registered on your CNIC. The 668 service or the cnic.sims.pk portal will list them all.
What does not work through public channels: looking up a stranger’s name, CNIC, or address from their phone number. Sites that claim to do this are either using the stale 2013 leak (often wrong) or padding fabricated data to look like a successful lookup.
If you have a legitimate need to identify someone — fraud, harassment, missing person — the lawful path is via police FIR, PTA complaint at complaint.pta.gov.pk, or for criminal matters, the FIA Cyber Crime Wing. PTA releases ownership records to law enforcement on request. They do not release them publicly. For more on what’s possible, see SIM details by number.
Pak SIM Data 2026 — what has changed
Three significant changes since the original 2013 leak shape what “Pak SIM Data” lookups can and can’t return today:
- The OTP rollout (2024). The cnic.sims.pk portal now requires OTP verification to a registered number. This blocks the casual abuse pattern where someone with a copy of your CNIC could pull your full record without your knowledge.
- The reduced SIM limit (2024). PTA cut the per-CNIC SIM limit, with the current ceiling at five active SIMs across prepaid and postpaid combined. This change retroactively forced many people to deactivate excess SIMs, meaning records from before the cut don’t match what’s active now. See the PTA SIM limit page. If you need to act on this, the guide on how to deactivate extra SIMs in Pakistan walks through the process for each operator.
- Continued enforcement. PTA has issued repeated notices to ISPs blocking known scraper domains. The cycle of takedown-and-reappearance continues, but each takedown wipes out the older domains that were running on increasingly stale data. The 2013 leak is still the underlying source for almost all of them.
For the broader picture of how recent the data really is, see fresh SIM database Pakistan.
Pak SIM Data vs SIM Database Online — same thing?
In search terms, mostly yes. In user intent, slightly different.
“Pak SIM Data” tends to be searched by users looking for a specific scraper-style tool or testing whether their leaked record is out there. “SIM database online” is searched by users looking for the legitimate PTA access portal. Both queries arrive at the same answer: PTA’s SVMS is the authoritative database, and cnic.sims.pk is the public access point.
If you’re looking for the official database access page, see SIM database online Pakistan.
Pak SIM Data owner details by name
Searching SIM records by name alone — “what number does Ahmed Khan use?” — is not supported through any official channel. PTA’s portal and SMS services key off the CNIC, not the name. There are two reasons:
- Names aren’t unique in Pakistan. Common naming patterns mean dozens of Ahmed Khans share identical CNIC dates of birth. A name-based lookup would return ambiguous results even if PTA exposed it.
- Privacy. Name-keyed lookup would make stalking trivially easy. PTA’s policy choice is that you can verify someone’s identity if you already know their CNIC (because they gave it to you in a transaction), not the reverse.
The lawful workaround when a name-based lookup is genuinely needed — for instance, a court-ordered investigation — runs through formal PTA → FIA → law enforcement channels with a documented purpose.
Network-specific SIM owner checks
If you know which network a SIM belongs to, each operator has its own verification process. The official guides for each network cover the exact codes and portal steps:
These are useful when you want to verify a SIM that’s already in your hand and you know the operator — the network-specific codes sometimes return faster or additional confirmation compared to the universal 667 route.
Privacy and the Pak SIM Data ecosystem
Submitting your own CNIC to a third-party Pak SIM Data site carries real risk. The sites monetise in three ways: ad revenue, paid “premium” lookups, and (in the worst cases) reselling submitted CNICs to data brokers. You may search for “Pak SIM Data of my number” once; the site has your CNIC permanently.
The official PTA channels don’t have this problem. The 668 SMS goes to the PTA’s number; the cnic.sims.pk portal is operated by PTA. Your CNIC stays inside the regulator’s system rather than a private operator who has no accountability for what they do with it.
The privacy upside of using the official path is exactly the same as the accuracy upside: there’s only one place your record actually lives, and that’s PTA’s SVMS. Everything else is either a copy, a leak, or a fabrication. If a scraper site has already listed SIMs under your CNIC, the fastest countermeasure is to deactivate extra SIMs you no longer use — each one removed reduces your exposed footprint.
Frequently asked questions
Is Pak SIM Data accurate?
The dataset that most “Pak SIM Data” sites query is the leaked 2013 NADRA/PTA snapshot. It’s twelve years stale and frequently wrong. PTA’s live SVMS (accessible via 668 and cnic.sims.pk) is the only accurate source.
Is Pak SIM Data legal in Pakistan?
Querying your own CNIC’s records through official PTA channels is legal. Using leaked Pak SIM Data to look up strangers may violate Section 6 of PECA 2016.
Why do Pak SIM Data sites keep going down?
PTA periodically issues takedown notices to hosting providers. Sites reappear under new domains but are running on increasingly old leaked data each cycle.
Can I look up Pak SIM Data by number?
Not through public channels. You can look up the SIM in your own hand ((https://checksimownerdetails.pk/sim-owner-details-667/)), all SIMs on your own CNIC ((https://checksimownerdetails.pk/cnic-sim-check/)), or the network of any number (76367). Reverse lookup of strangers’ numbers is not officially supported.
What’s the safest Pak SIM Data alternative?
Send your CNIC to 668 for a free count across all networks, or log into cnic.sims.pk for the full record. Both are operated by PTA, both are free, and neither exposes your CNIC to third parties. See also: SIM database online Pakistan.
Does PTA share Pak SIM Data publicly?
PTA does not release the SVMS dataset publicly. Citizens can query their own records; law enforcement can request third-party records through formal channels. Bulk public access has never been offered.
Is the 2013 Pak SIM Data leak still online?
Copies continue to circulate on file-sharing networks and Telegram channels. The data is increasingly stale and using it remains a Section 6 PECA risk regardless of its age.
How do I remove my number from Pak SIM Data databases?
You can’t directly remove yourself from leaked datasets that exist outside PTA’s control. What you can do: keep your PTA record current via re-verification, deactivate any SIMs you don’t need (each one removed is one less data point exposed), and file a PTA complaint if a specific site is misusing your information.