Named Apps, Zero Real Data
Pak SIM Data, PakSimInfo & Pak Sim Pro Explained (2026) — Why No Searchable CNIC Database Exists
There is no real, legal “Pak SIM Data” database in Pakistan — apps and sites branded PakSimInfo, Pak Sim Pro, PakData or paksim cannot look up a stranger’s name, CNIC or address from a mobile number, no matter how confident their homepage sounds. The only method with any legal or technical basis is checking your own CNIC record for free at cnic.sims.pk or by SMS to 668 — and this guide explains exactly why the named brands fall short, where their “data” really comes from, and what you can legally do instead.
The Search Behind The Term
What people actually mean by “Pak SIM Data”, PakSimInfo and Pak Sim Pro
“Pak SIM Data” is not one website — it is a search-term family that has attached itself to a shifting cluster of apps, Facebook pages and copy-cat sites (PakSimInfo, Pak Sim Pro, PakData, paksim, “pak sim data online”, “pk sim data apk”) that all promise the same impossible thing: type in any Pakistani mobile number and get back the SIM owner’s name, CNIC number, home address, and sometimes even a live map location.
If you searched any variant of “pak sim data”, “pk sim info”, “pak sims info” or “all pak sim data” to land here, you are almost certainly trying to solve one of a handful of very ordinary problems: an unknown number keeps calling or messaging you, you suspect a courier or delivery scam, you are trying to verify a stranger before a transaction, you lost a phone and want to trace who has it now, or you simply want to know how many SIMs are sitting on your own name. Every one of those is a reasonable thing to want to know. The honest answer, though, is that the tools marketed under the “Pak SIM Data” banner were never built to solve any of them legally.
These brands typically present themselves in one of three formats. First, a website with a search box and a domain name that sounds official — often ending in an unusual extension like .cf, .tk or .ga rather than .pk or .gov.pk. Second, an Android APK — usually not on the Google Play Store — carrying a name like “Pak Sim Pro” or “PakSimInfo Pro” and asking for a long list of phone permissions before it will even open. Third, a Facebook or YouTube page that screen-records a “demo” of a supposed lookup and links out to one of the first two. None of these three formats has ever been shown, independently, to return a real, verifiable stranger’s identity from a number — because the underlying database they would need to do that does not exist in a form any of them can legally access.
It is worth being clear-eyed about why this niche of apps keeps reappearing under new names every few months. There genuinely is no shortage of Pakistanis who want this feature. But wanting a tool and a lawful version of that tool existing are two different things, and the gap between them is exactly where PakSimInfo, Pak Sim Pro and every “pak sim data” clone site operates.
The Straight Answer
No legal, public “Pak SIM Data” database exists — full stop
No legal, public database lets anyone in Pakistan type in a stranger’s mobile number and receive their name, CNIC or address — not PTA, not any telecom operator, and not any app or website calling itself Pak SIM Data, PakSimInfo, Pak Sim Pro or paksim. If a site or app says otherwise, it is either wrong, lying, or operating outside the law.
This is not a grey area or a matter of one provider being more thorough than another. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) does not operate, licence, or authorise any third-party subscriber-lookup service. The only subscriber-facing tool PTA runs is the SIM Information System at cnic.sims.pk, and — as we cover in detail in the next section — that tool only ever answers one question: “how many SIMs are registered on this CNIC?” It never answers “who owns this number?”
So when a search for “pak sim data”, “pak sim info” or “all pak sim data” brings you to a page promising the second question answered, you are looking at a page built to rank for demand, not to deliver an answer that legally exists. We would rather tell you that plainly here than let you waste time, money, or your own data on an app that cannot do what it claims.
What you can legally and usefully do is run a full SIM owner details check on your own CNIC — free, official, and instant. If your actual problem is an unknown or harassing number, the lawful path is not a lookup at all; it is reporting the number to PTA through its RAABTA WhatsApp self-service assistant on 0315-0055055 (launched 26 February 2026) or filing a complaint with the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) on its 24/7 helpline 1799, launched 3 June 2025. Tracing a specific person’s identity behind a number is something only a police officer or investigation agency can request from a service provider, and only under a lawful investigation governed by PECA 2016 and the Investigation Rules 2018 — never as a public, on-demand service, and never something this guide, or any legitimate app, can offer you as a shortcut.
The Technical Reality
Why a searchable “Pak SIM Data” tool cannot be real
A searchable “Pak SIM Data” tool cannot be real because PTA has never published a public API for subscriber lookups, and PTA’s own SIM Information System is deliberately built as a one-way, self-check counter — not a directory that anyone, including PTA’s own staff on the public side, can search by number.
We ran the official portal first-hand on 30 August 2026 to confirm exactly what it does and does not show, so this is not secondhand. The tool is branded “PMD SIM Information System” on the page itself, offers separate tabs for a Pakistani CNIC and a foreign ID (NICOP/POC), and sits behind a reCAPTCHA to stop automated scraping. Enter your own 13-digit CNIC and the result is a dated table — your ID number and the date printed at the top — with exactly four columns: Network, Voice+Data SIMs, Data Only SIMs, and Total SIMs. Every one of the four networks, Jazz, Telenor, Ufone and Zong, gets its own row even if the count is zero, plus a Total row at the bottom. There is no separate row for Onic or SCO/SCOM: Onic is a PTML/Ufone digital brand, so its SIMs are folded into the Ufone/PTML total, and SCO serves Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan separately.
Nowhere on that page, at any point, is there a name field, an address field, a phone-number search box, or an activation-date column. Structurally, it cannot become a “Pak SIM Data” style tool without PTA rebuilding it from scratch to expose subscriber identities by number — something PTA has never announced, has no public API for, and would itself run directly into the same PECA 2016 restrictions on unauthorised identity disclosure discussed further down this page. The table below sets the real tool side-by-side with what the named copy-cat brands claim.
| Feature | cnic.sims.pk (real, PTA-run) | “Pak SIM Data” / PakSimInfo / Pak Sim Pro (claimed) |
|---|---|---|
| What you enter | Your own 13-digit CNIC or NICOP/POC number | Someone else’s mobile number |
| What comes back | A dated table: Network, Voice+Data SIMs, Data Only SIMs, Total — per operator, on your own identity | Claimed: a stranger’s name, CNIC, address, sometimes a live location |
| Names or addresses shown | Never — no name field exists anywhere on the page | Claimed, but with no legal source able to supply this |
| Cost | Free online; about Rs 2 with tax by SMS to 668 | Often “free” to search, then a payment wall or forced app install to “unlock” a result |
| Legal basis | PTA’s own SIM Information System, self-check only | None — no public PTA API for third-party subscriber lookups exists |
| Status, 30 Aug 2026 | Confirmed live, first-hand run of the portal | Named brands checked dead, parked, or APK-only — see the brand check below |
This is also the answer to a question many readers arrive with without phrasing it this way: does PTA have a public SIM owner database people can search? It does not. The only public-facing tool is the counter above, and it was designed that way on purpose.
Follow The Data
Where the “data” actually comes from when a site does return something
No “Pak SIM Data” style site or app can hand you a stranger’s real, current identity from a number — that stays true no matter what a screen shows you. When one of these tools displays anything at all against a number, it is not evidence that a lookup worked. It is either a fabricated placeholder built to keep you clicking or paying, or noise ultimately traceable to the 2019–2023 records-theft investigation that Dawn reported on in March 2024 — never a live, working directory, and never proof that a stranger’s identity can legally be pulled from a number.
That investigation is the closest thing to a sourced explanation for why this category of app exists at all — it is not proof that any of them still function. A joint investigation by the FIA and a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) found that 2.7 million citizen records had been stolen or compromised between 2019 and 2023, as Dawn reported in March 2024. That describes a theft of records over a four-year window that ended in 2023 — a stale, partial snapshot frozen years in the past, not a live feed any app today is plugged into. Even where a fragment of that old, compromised data happens to survive somewhere, neither you nor the app showing it to you has any way to confirm it is accurate, current, or attached to the right person. An unverifiable fragment like that can never honestly be called a working “Pak SIM Data” database, and treating it as someone’s current identity is exactly the kind of unauthorised use of identity information PECA 2016 was written to stop.
In practice, running one of these tools has a small number of realistic outcomes, and a verified stranger’s identity is never one of them. It may return nothing at all. It may return a fabricated or mismatched result dressed up to look like a hit — an old address, a person who no longer holds that number, or a name pulled from an unrelated record — since numbers are recycled and reassigned constantly and old leaked lists were never built to track that churn. Or, most importantly for your own safety, the app may not be reading any external data at all: many of these apps ask for contacts, SMS, call-log and location permissions on install, which means the “search” you run may quietly be feeding your own phone’s data into their system rather than pulling a stranger’s data out of it. That last risk to your own information is real and practical, and it is the one outcome you should assume is happening every time you try one of these tools.
Any “Pak SIM Data” brand implying its results are current, fresh, or pulled from an active database is making a claim with no legitimate basis at all — there is no active, maintained database behind any of these brands, only, at best, disconnected fragments of an old, compromised, unverifiable dataset that can never honestly be presented as a working directory.
None of this should be read as an accusation that any specific named brand stole data — we have no evidence of that, and we are not making that claim about pakdata.cf, Pak Sim Pro, or paksim specifically. It is simply the honest, sourced explanation for why the wider “Pak SIM Data” category of sites exists, and why nothing it ever shows you should be trusted as a real person’s identity.
The Law
The law: PECA 2016 Section 16 and why “just checking” a stranger is a crime
Under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (PECA), Section 16, using another person’s identity information without their authorisation is a criminal offence in Pakistan — it does not matter whether you are the one running the search, or the one operating the site that runs it for you.
It is worth sitting with what this means practically. If you download an app claiming “all pak sim data” and use it to try to identify who has been calling you, you are not in a legal grey zone — you are attempting to access identity information without authorisation, which is precisely what Section 16 targets. The app operator, if they are genuinely storing or trading real subscriber data rather than junk, is exposed to the same offence from the supply side. Both directions carry risk, and neither delivers a reliable result in return.
✅ You CAN (legal & safe)
- Check every SIM registered on your own CNIC via 668 or cnic.sims.pk
- Report a harassing or suspicious number to PTA via its RAABTA WhatsApp self-service assistant on 0315-0055055
- File a formal cybercrime complaint with the NCCIA on helpline 1799
- Ask a court or law-enforcement matter to proceed through its proper legal channel
🚫 You must AVOID (illegal / risky)
- “Pak SIM Data”, PakSimInfo, Pak Sim Pro, paksim, pakdata-style “number to identity” searches — PECA 2016, Section 16
- Entering your CNIC or payment details on any non-PTA domain
- Installing APKs from outside the Play Store that request contacts, SMS or location access to “search a number”
- Sharing or forwarding a “SIM data” tool to friends, which spreads the same legal exposure
Brand Check, 30 August 2026
Is Pak Sim Pro real? A live status check on pakdata.cf, Pak Sim Pro and paksim
As of 30 August 2026, none of the specifically named “Pak SIM Data” brands — pakdata.cf, the Pak Sim Pro app, and the generic “paksim” label — operate as a working, accountable lookup service; each is dead, parked, or exists only as an unverified APK listing with no named legal entity behind it.
We are deliberately not linking to any of the three below. Do not search them out to “test” them — at best you will waste time on a dead page, at worst you will be asked for a CNIC, a payment, or an app install with permissions you should never grant.
pakdata.cf
The domain uses the “.cf” top-level extension, a free registration originally tied to the Central African Republic and widely used across the internet for short-lived, disposable, or parked pages precisely because it costs nothing to register and re-register under a new name. As of 30 August 2026, pakdata.cf does not resolve to a working, functioning SIM lookup tool. We are making no accusation about what the domain previously hosted or who registered it — we simply cannot confirm it as a live, legitimate service today, and a domain on a free, disposable extension is not the kind of infrastructure a genuine government-linked or PTA-authorised tool would ever use.
Pak Sim Pro (app)
“Pak Sim Pro” circulates primarily as an Android APK file shared through third-party file-hosting links and forwarded in WhatsApp groups, rather than as a listed, reviewable app on the Google Play Store. No named developer, registered company, or verifiable office address is publicly attached to it. An app with no accountable publisher and no Play Store listing cannot be vetted for what it actually does with the permissions it requests, which is itself a reason for caution independent of whether its “SIM data” claim is true.
paksim
“Paksim” is used loosely across several unrelated web pages, APK-sharing sites and social posts rather than referring to one single, identifiable, accountable product. Because the name is reused by multiple unconnected pages, there is no single “paksim” company or service to verify in the first place — which is itself the clearest signal that it is a generic search-bait label rather than a real, unified product.
The pattern across all three is the same one you will see across this entire category: no named legal entity, no verifiable PTA authorisation, no Play Store accountability, and infrastructure (free-TLD domains, off-store APKs) that is cheap to spin up and abandon. That pattern, not any single named brand, is the real thing worth learning to recognise — which is exactly what the checklist below is for.
Spot The Fake
Red-flags checklist: spotting a fake SIM-data site or app before it costs you
The fastest way to spot a fake “SIM data” site or app is to check whether it asks for a stranger’s number instead of your own CNIC, asks you to pay or install something before showing a result, or requests phone permissions (contacts, SMS, location, call log) it has no legitimate reason to need.
- Asks you to type in someone else’s mobile number rather than your own CNIC — no legal tool works this way
- Requests a CNIC-entry form on a non-.gov.pk, non-PTA domain, especially one using a free or unusual extension like .cf, .tk or .ga
- Demands payment, a subscription, or an “unlock fee” before revealing a result
- An Android app asking for contacts, SMS, call-log or precise-location permissions it has no legitimate reason to need for a “lookup”
- No named company, no registered office address, no customer-support contact anywhere on the site or in the app listing
- No mention of PTA authorisation, or a vague, unverifiable claim of being “linked with PTA” or “government approved”
- Not listed on the Google Play Store, or shared only as a raw APK file through WhatsApp/Telegram links
- Reviews that are either all suspiciously five-star or entirely absent, with no real user complaints visible anywhere
- Marketing language promising “instant owner name and address” or “live location tracking” from a number — the single clearest tell, since no legal Pakistani tool has ever offered this
Two more named-sounding traps are worth knowing about while you are being careful here. Our guide to the SIM database myth goes deeper into why no centralised, searchable subscriber directory exists in Pakistan at all — this page focuses on named apps and brands, that one covers the broader “is there a database” question. Separately, our live SIM tracker piece debunks the related claim that any number can be turned into a real-time map location — a different myth from the one covered here, but one that often gets marketed by the same category of app.
The Legal Alternative
The real, legal way to check SIM data in Pakistan
The real, legal way to check SIM data in Pakistan is to SMS your own 13-digit CNIC (no dashes) to 668 for about Rs 2 including tax, or enter it free at cnic.sims.pk — both return a dated, operator-wise count of every SIM registered on your own CNIC, nothing about anyone else.
- Open cnic.sims.pk in any browser, from anywhere in the world — no VPN, login or app required
- Choose the CNIC tab (or Foreign ID for a NICOP/POC), enter your 13-digit number and complete the reCAPTCHA
- Read the results table: Network, Voice+Data SIMs, Data Only SIMs, Total — Jazz, Telenor, Ufone, Zong, plus your grand total
- Remember the Supreme Court’s cap set on 5 November 2015: 8 SIMs total per CNIC (5 voice + 3 data); 2 SIMs for foreign nationals and POC holders
- If a number is unregistered on your CNIC that you did not activate, contact that operator’s helpline directly to have it disowned — the fee is capped at Rs 200 (waived where fraud is involved), in force since 1 January 2024
Three more official codes round out a genuine self-check toolkit — none of them work on a stranger’s number either, and the table below spells out exactly what each one returns.
| Tool | Checks | Returns | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 668 (SMS) | Your own CNIC | Per-operator count of every SIM on your CNIC | About Rs 2 with tax |
| cnic.sims.pk | Your own CNIC / NICOP | Same count, on screen, free, works worldwide | Free |
| 667 (SMS “MNP”) | The SIM in your own hand | That SIM’s own registered name, masked CNIC, IMSI, activation date | Standard SMS rate |
| 76367 (SMS “N 03xxxxxxxxx”) | Any number’s current network only | Network name only — no owner name, CNIC or address | Rs 2 + tax |
Notice that even 76367, which does accept someone else’s number, only ever tells you which network that number sits on — never a name, CNIC or address. If your real goal is identifying who is behind a specific caller, our guide on finding a SIM owner’s name by mobile number walks through exactly what each legitimate code can and cannot tell you, and why the honest answer, once again, stops well short of a stranger’s identity. For the fullest walkthrough of checking your own SIM owner details end-to-end, our homepage guide to SIM owner details in Pakistan covers every self-check method on one page.
Ek Seedhi Baat
Roman-Urdu mein: Pak SIM Data ka sach
Bhai, agar aap ne “Pak SIM Data”, “PakSimInfo” ya “Pak Sim Pro” search kar ke yahan tak pohnchay hain, to sabse pehle ye jaan lein: koi bhi aisi legal, public website ya app Pakistan mein maujood nahi jo kisi ajnabi ke number se uska naam, CNIC ya address nikaal kar de. Ye sab claims marketing hain, haqeeqat nahin. PTA ka apna tool sirf cnic.sims.pk hai, aur wo bhi sirf itna batata hai ke aapke apne CNIC par kitni SIMs registered hain — kisi doosray insaan ki tafseelat wahan kabhi nahi milti.
Jo apps ya sites kabhi kabhar kuch result dikha bhi deti hain, wo asal mein purani, leak ho chuki lists hoti hain — jaisa ke Dawn ne March 2024 mein report kiya, 2019 se 2023 tak 2.7 million records chori hone ki investigation ka nateeja, na ke koi live database. Aisa purana, chori shuda data kabhi bhi verify nahi kiya ja sakta ke wo sahi hai ya kis par lagu hota hai, is liye ise kabhi kisi ki asal pehchan samajh kar istemal na karein. Aur ye kaam qanoonan bhi khatarnak hai: PECA 2016, Section 16 ke tehat kisi doosray insaan ki identity bughair ijazat use karna jurm hai — 3 saal tak qaid, 50 lakh rupay tak jurmana, ya dono.
Agar koi number aapko tang kar raha hai, to sahi tareeqa ye hai ke PTA ko uske RAABTA WhatsApp assistant 0315-0055055 par ya NCCIA ko helpline 1799 par report karein — na ke khud kisi “SIM data” app mein CNIC ya payment daal kar apna hi data khatray mein daal lein. Apni CNIC par kitni SIMs hain, ye check karna ho to sirf 668 par apna CNIC SMS karein ya cnic.sims.pk khol lein — muft, official, aur mehfooz.
Questions, Answered
Frequently asked questions about Pak SIM Data
Is Pak SIM Data a real website or app?
No single “Pak SIM Data” service is a genuine, working lookup tool. It is a search term that many copy-cat sites and APKs use to attract traffic by promising a searchable SIM/CNIC database. No legal public database like this exists in Pakistan, so any site using the name cannot deliver what it advertises.
Is pak sim pro a real app?
As of 30 August 2026, Pak Sim Pro is not a verifiable, accountable app. It circulates as an APK shared outside the Google Play Store rather than as a listed app from a named developer, and no legal entity or company is publicly attached to it, which is why we cannot call it a real, trustworthy product.
What is pakdata.cf?
pakdata.cf is a domain using the “.cf” extension, a free top-level domain often used for short-lived or parked pages. As of 30 August 2026 it does not operate as a working, legitimate SIM lookup tool. We are not making any theft accusation about it — we simply cannot confirm it as a genuine, functioning service.
Can I trust an app that says it has “all Pakistan SIM data”?
No. No app or website can legally hold “all Pakistan SIM data” because PTA has never published a public API for subscriber lookups. Any app making this claim is either recycling old leaked lists, showing fabricated results, or collecting your own data (contacts, location, CNIC) through excessive permissions once installed.
Can any website really show me a stranger’s name and CNIC from their phone number?
No legal public tool in Pakistan does this. PTA’s own SIM Information System only lets you check the SIM count on your own CNIC and never displays names, addresses or phone numbers. A site promising a stranger’s identity from a number is either wrong, lying, or using stolen data.
Is it illegal to search for someone’s SIM owner details in Pakistan?
Using another person’s identity information without authorisation is an offence under PECA 2016, Section 16, punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment, a fine of up to Rs 5,000,000, or both. Running such a search, or supplying one, both carry legal risk — there is no “just curious” exemption.
Where do “Pak SIM Data” apps get the information they show?
When such an app or site shows anything at all, it is not a real stranger lookup working — it is typically a fabricated result, or noise traceable to the 2019–2023 records-theft investigation that Dawn reported on in March 2024 (2.7 million citizen records compromised), a past breach that can never be verified as accurate or current, never a live PTA feed.
What is the real, legal way to check SIM data in Pakistan?
SMS your own 13-digit CNIC (no dashes) to 668 for about Rs 2, or enter it free at cnic.sims.pk. Both return a dated table of how many SIMs are registered on your own CNIC, per operator — never a stranger’s name, address or number.
How can I check how many SIMs are registered on my own CNIC?
Use cnic.sims.pk, PTA’s free self-check portal, or SMS your CNIC to 668. You will see a table listing Jazz, Telenor, Ufone and Zong with Voice+Data, Data Only and Total SIM counts, plus a grand total — the same 8-SIM limit set by the Supreme Court on 5 November 2015 applies to everyone.
What should I do if someone is harassing me and I want to know who owns the number?
You cannot legally look up their identity yourself. Report the number to PTA through its RAABTA WhatsApp self-service assistant on 0315-0055055, or file a complaint with the NCCIA cyber helpline 1799. Only a police officer or investigation agency, acting under PECA 2016 and the Investigation Rules 2018, can lawfully obtain a specific person’s subscriber information.
Does PTA have a public SIM owner database people can search?
No. PTA’s only public-facing tool is the SIM Information System at cnic.sims.pk, and it is a self-check counter, not a directory — it only accepts your own CNIC and only returns operator-wise SIM counts on that CNIC, never a searchable list of subscribers by number.
How can I tell if a “SIM data” app is fake before I download it?
Watch for a CNIC-entry form, upfront or hidden payment requests, excessive Android permissions (contacts, SMS, location, call log), no named legal entity or office address, no mention of PTA authorisation, a free-TLD domain like .cf or .tk, and an APK offered outside the Play Store.
