{"id":6958,"date":"2025-07-22T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:39:24","slug":"pta-intensifies-crackdown-on-illegal-sim-issuance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/2025\/07\/22\/pta-intensifies-crackdown-on-illegal-sim-issuance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PTA Intensifies Crackdown on Illegal SIM Issuance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad (Zahid Yaqoob Khawaja): The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Zonal Office Lahore, in close coordination with the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) Lahore, conducted a successful raid on Ufone Franchise located in Phase 8, DHA Lahore. The franchise was found involved in the illegal issuance of SIMs.<br><br>During the raid, 152,000 fingerprints (in PDF format, including 10 and 8 FPS) and evidence of illegally opened Upaisa accounts were recovered from the franchise owner\u2019s laptop. Additionally, 6 Ufone BVS devices, 3 Jazz BVS devices, 7 active Ufone SIMs were confiscated. Two individuals, including the franchise owner and a Ufone Area Sales Manager (ASM), were arrested on the spot.<br><br>This enforcement drive underscores PTA&#8217;s unwavering commitment to curbing illegal SIM activities and safeguarding Pakistan&#8217;s digital ecosystem.<br><br>Citizens are encouraged to report such violations via call PTA at 0800-55055 or visit: https:\/\/complaint.pta.gov.pk\/userlogin.aspx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad (Zahid Yaqoob Khawaja): The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Zonal Office Lahore, in close coordination with the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) Lahore, conducted a successful raid on Ufone Franchise located in Phase 8, DHA Lahore. The franchise was found involved in the illegal issuance of SIMs. During the raid, 152,000 fingerprints (in PDF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-science-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6964,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions\/6964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}