{"id":77798,"date":"2025-06-17T22:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=77798"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:22:04","slug":"pakistan-to-block-nearly-5-million-mobile-sim-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-to-block-nearly-5-million-mobile-sim-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to block nearly 5 million mobile SIM cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to block 4.9 million mobile SIM cards that were issued against expired National Identity Cards (CNICs).<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a request from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nadra-expands-biker-service-in-port-city\/\">NADRA<\/a>, the Interior Ministry has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to initiate a crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile SIM cards issued against expired or cancelled Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) will be blocked in a phased manner. SIM cards issued against CNICS, which expired in 2017, will be blocked till June 30, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to block 4.9 million mobile SIM cards that were issued against expired National Identity Cards (CNICs). Acting on a request from NADRA, the Interior Ministry has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to initiate a crackdown. Mobile SIM cards issued against expired or cancelled Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":77799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[826,16653],"class_list":["post-77798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-nadra","tag-sim-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77800,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77798\/revisions\/77800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}