Find SIM Details by Number or CNIC
Enter a mobile number or your 13-digit CNIC to check the registered SIM details instantly — free and within PTA rules.
Checking SIM details by number in Pakistan is more restricted than most websites admit. PTA does not allow public reverse-lookup of arbitrary numbers — only the network can be confirmed (send the number to 76367), and only the SIM in your own hand can be verified by name (text MNP to 667). For SIMs registered on your own CNIC, the 668 service returns the full list. This guide explains every legitimate path, what each one returns, and what to do when the number isn’t yours. For a broader overview of how Pakistan’s SIM verification ecosystem works, see SIM information Pakistan.
Want to verify or Check SIM owner details in Pakistan the right way? Our platform lets you check your own SIM registration data or look up publicly available contact information — all within PTA regulations. Every search is designed with accuracy, user privacy, and responsible usage at its core.
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What SIM details can you actually check by number?
The answer depends on whose number you're asking about. PTA's privacy framework draws a sharp line between numbers you control and numbers belonging to other people:
| Whose number? | What you can check | How |
|---|---|---|
| Any Pakistani number | The network only (Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, SCO) | SMS to 76367 |
| The SIM in your own hand | Owner name + CNIC | SMS MNP to 667 |
| Any SIM on your own CNIC | Full list with names, networks, status | 668 SMS or cnic.sims.pk |
| Someone else's number | Nothing publicly | Requires lawful process |
This is a deliberate design. PTA does not expose a public phone-number-to-owner lookup because Section 6 of PECA 2016 prohibits unauthorised access to identity data. The services that exist were built around the legitimate use cases — confirming your own SIM, auditing your own CNIC, routing complaints to the right operator. For a quick comparison of the two most-used SMS methods, see 667 vs 668 Pakistan.
Method 1: SIM network details by number (76367)
The 76367 service answers one question: which network does this number belong to?
Send the 11-digit Pakistani mobile number as the SMS body to 76367. Within about ten seconds you'll receive a reply confirming the operator — Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, or SCO. Owner details are not returned and never have been.
This is the most useful free service for a mundane but common scenario: routing a complaint. If a number has harassed you, called you from a missed-call scam, or sent you unsolicited marketing, you need to know which operator's anti-spam desk to contact. The number's original prefix is no longer reliable because Mobile Number Portability has been live since 2007 — a 0300 number that started life as Mobilink may now be Telenor or Ufone. The 76367 service handles MNP correctly and shows the current network.
The SMS cost is around Rs.0.30 depending on your carrier. The lookup itself is free.
Method 2: Your own SIM's owner details (MNP to 667)
The 667 service is built on PTA's Mobile Number Portability infrastructure and doubles as a SIM owner lookup. From the SIM whose details you want to verify, type MNP (uppercase or lowercase) and send to 667. The reply confirms the registered owner's name and a partially masked CNIC.
The critical limitation: 667 only reveals the owner of the SIM that sent the SMS. You cannot query a different number this way. This is by design — the service exists so you can confirm whose name your hand-held SIM is registered under, not so you can investigate someone else's number.
The 667 method covers several real-world scenarios well:
- You bought a SIM from a friend and want to confirm it's registered to them, not their cousin.
- You re-verified biometrics last week and want to check the binding succeeded.
- You've held a SIM for years and never confirmed whose CNIC it sits under.
- You're about to transfer a SIM and want documentation of the current registered owner.
For the complete walkthrough including sample responses per network, see the dedicated 667 method guide.
Method 3: All SIMs on your CNIC (668 SMS)
If you want SIM details for every number registered against your own CNIC — including numbers you may have forgotten about — the 668 service is the right tool. Type your 13-digit CNIC straight (no dashes, no spaces) and send to 668. The reply lists how many SIMs you have per network across Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, and SCO.
The 668 service is "reverse" in a useful sense: instead of asking "who owns this number?", it asks "which numbers do I own?". For most people running a periodic identity audit, this is the question that actually matters.
The count tells you whether there's a SIM on your CNIC you don't recognise. The individual numbers themselves you'll need to retrieve from the cnic.sims.pk portal. If you find more SIMs than expected, you can act on it immediately — see how to deactivate extra SIMs in Pakistan. For the full audit workflow, see the CNIC SIM check page.
Method 4: cnic.sims.pk web portal
The cnic.sims.pk portal is PTA's free online SIM lookup, OTP-protected since the 2024 privacy update. Open the portal, enter your 13-digit CNIC, complete the captcha, and verify via the OTP sent to one of your registered numbers. The portal then displays your full SIM record: each individual number, the network, the activation date, the biometric verification status, and any flags such as suspended or blocked.
The portal is the most detailed of the four official methods. Use it when:
- You need activation dates for documentation.
- You need to see verification status per SIM.
- You're trying to identify a specific number behind a 668 count that looks wrong.
- You're abroad with internet access but no roaming SMS.
The OTP step means you need access to at least one active SIM on your CNIC to log in. If you've lost your only Pakistani SIM, the portal won't help you recover access — visit any operator's franchise with your CNIC to get a temporary replacement first. For additional context on SIM limits that may affect what you see in the portal, see PTA SIM limit per CNIC Pakistan.
Can someone find your name from your phone number?
The official answer is no — not through public channels. PTA does not expose any service that takes a phone number and returns its owner's identity unless you're the owner.
The realistic answer is that the 2013 NADRA/PTA biometric leak is still circulating in copies online. Third-party "Pak SIM Data" sites use this dataset to claim reverse lookup, but the data is twelve years old and is wrong about most current SIMs. SIMs activated after 2013 — which is most active SIMs today — won't be in the leak at all. SIMs that have been re-verified, blocked, released, or reassigned since the leak will show outdated owner information. For a deeper breakdown of why these sites serve stale records, see fresh SIM database Pakistan.
Beyond accuracy, using the leak is legally hazardous. Section 6 of PECA 2016 covers unauthorised access to identity data, and Section 21 specifically criminalises cyber-stalking. Pulling someone's CNIC from a leaked dataset to investigate them — even for what feels like a legitimate reason — sits inside both sections.
If you're concerned someone is using a leaked record to track you, the path is FIA's Cyber Crime Wing. They handle cases of identity-data misuse and have the lawful authority to trace back to whoever originally accessed and circulated the leaked record.
For more on what's possible when you legitimately need someone identified, see CNIC details by number.
"SIM details by number with name and address" — is it possible?
This is the most common variation of the search, and the answer needs to be precise: name yes, address no.
Owner name appears in PTA's SVMS for every biometrically activated SIM. The 667 service reveals it for the SIM in your hand. The cnic.sims.pk portal reveals it for every SIM on your CNIC. For someone else's SIM, the name is not publicly accessible. The SIM database online Pakistan page covers exactly what PTA's portal exposes and what it doesn't.
Address is not part of public SIM owner records. PTA does not record or expose address fields through 667, 668, the portal, or any other public channel. The CNIC itself has an address recorded with NADRA, but that's separate from the SIM registration database and is not released even to law enforcement without a separate request.
Websites that promise "SIM details by number with name and address" are either:
- Returning fabricated data padded around a stale name pulled from the 2013 leak.
- Charging premium fees for results they know to be invented.
- Running scam flows where the "address" field is generated from your IP geolocation, not the SIM's records.
Real address tracing requires a court order routed through PTA to NADRA, and that's only granted in documented criminal investigations.
SIM details by number for Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, SCO
The four methods above are network-agnostic. The same SMS codes work whether you're checking a Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, or SCO number. PTA's SVMS sits across all five operators and the lookup services query the unified index.
Where networks differ is in their internal customer service flows. If you need to do something beyond a lookup — disputing a registration, requesting deactivation, getting a SIM re-verified — you'll deal with the specific operator's franchise system. The relevant pages for each network cover that flow:
- Jazz SIM owner details
- Zong SIM owner details
- Telenor SIM owner details
- Ufone SIM owner details
- SCO SIM owner details
Note on Mobile Number Portability: a SIM's owner record stays with the original CNIC even when the number is ported between operators. If a Jazz SIM has been ported to Telenor, the owner record stays with the original Jazz registration — the network changed, the identity binding didn't.
Mobile number details with owner name
"Mobile number details with owner name" is the most searched variant of this query in Pakistan. The plain-English answer for users searching it:
If it's your number, you have three free official ways to see the owner name:
- Text MNP to 667 from that SIM.
- Text your CNIC to 668 and check cnic.sims.pk for the details.
- Log into cnic.sims.pk directly with OTP.
If it's not your number, you cannot publicly retrieve the owner name. The leaked-dataset sites that claim to provide it are unreliable, illegal to use, and increasingly inaccurate. For a full picture of the official vs. unofficial landscape, see Pak SIM Data official.
This is uncomfortable to hear for users who feel they have a legitimate reason — a harassing caller, a suspicious number, an unknown caller their child mentioned. The lawful path for these cases is real and works: report to the network's anti-harassment desk, file a PTA complaint at complaint.pta.gov.pk, escalate to FIA Cyber Crime Wing for criminal cases. PTA can release ownership records to law enforcement on documented request. They do not release them to private individuals.
What if the number is harassing you?
A structured escalation works best for unwanted-call situations:
- Identify the network. Send the harassing number to 76367 to confirm which operator handles it. The number's prefix alone can mislead because of MNP.
- Report to the network's anti-harassment desk. Each operator has a dedicated channel. Jazz, Zong, Telenor, Ufone, and SCO all accept complaints with the harassing number, the date/time, and your own CNIC for verification. They can block the number from contacting you at the network level.
- File a PTA complaint. Use complaint.pta.gov.pk for cases the network won't or can't resolve. PTA has authority to direct operators and to issue blocking orders.
- Escalate to FIA Cyber Crime Wing. For criminal cases — threats, blackmail, harassment with sexual or financial content, repeated contact after a block — FIA is the right venue. They can trace the SIM owner through lawful channels and proceed with criminal charges. Women experiencing harassment can also reach the Cyber Harassment Helpline (0800-39393) for guided support.
This sequence works in practice and is far more effective than attempting to identify the caller yourself through scraper sites — which won't return accurate information and could open you to legal exposure for trying. To verify which SIMs are currently active under your CNIC while managing a harassment case, use the live SIM tracker to confirm your own registrations are secure.
Compliance note: Personal investigation of a SIM owner's identity through leaked data may violate Section 6 of PECA 2016. The lawful path runs through the network, PTA, and FIA.
Frequently asked questions
Can I check SIM details by number for free?
You can check the network of any number free via 76367, the owner of the SIM in your hand free via , and every SIM on your own CNIC free via or cnic.sims.pk. Reverse lookup of someone else's number isn't publicly available.
Does SIM details by number show the owner's name?
For SIMs you control, yes — through 667 or cnic.sims.pk. For someone else's number, no official channel returns the owner name to the public.
How accurate are online SIM details by number tools?
Tools that query PTA's live channels (668, 667, portal) are accurate to within minutes. Third-party sites running on the leaked 2013 dataset are twelve years stale and wrong about most current SIMs. See fresh SIM database Pakistan for why the accuracy gap is so wide.
What is the official PTA service to check a number?
PTA operates three: 668 for CNIC-wide audit, 667 for the current SIM's owner, 76367 for network identification. The cnic.sims.pk web portal is the official online equivalent. For a direct comparison of 667 vs 668, see 667 vs 668 Pakistan.
Is reverse phone lookup legal in Pakistan?
Looking up your own SIMs is legal. Looking up another person's identity from their number through leaked datasets may violate Section 6 of PECA 2016 and, in stalking cases, Section 21.
Can I trace a missed call from an unknown number?
You can confirm the network via 76367 and report the number to that operator's anti-spam desk. Tracing identity requires lawful process via PTA or FIA.
Why does the 76367 service show the wrong network sometimes?
It doesn't — but the number you're checking may have been ported via MNP. The prefix suggests one network; 76367 reports the current network correctly. The mismatch confuses some users but reflects what's actually true about the number.
Can I find an address from a Pakistani phone number?
No. Address fields aren't part of public SIM records. The CNIC's address sits with NADRA and is only released to law enforcement on formal request.
What about WhatsApp or Truecaller — do they reveal SIM owners?
WhatsApp shows whatever profile name the user set, which may or may not match the SIM owner. Truecaller crowdsources caller-ID data and is often wrong; it doesn't query PTA records. Neither is an official source.
How do I report a SIM being used for fraud?
File a PTA complaint at complaint.pta.gov.pk with the number and details. For criminal fraud, also report to FIA Cyber Crime Wing. PTA can block the SIM; FIA can pursue the owner. If the fraud SIM may be registered under your CNIC without your knowledge, deactivate extra SIMs immediately after running a 668 check.