ISLAMABAD: The federal government’s effort to scrutinise 103 million SIMs through biometric system will be continuing till Feb 26 as the cellular companies have been given April 15 deadline to verify the owners of all SIMs issued in the country.
The national database is being compiled as part of the government’s 20-point plan to curb terrorism in the wake of the December 16 Peshawar school attack.
About 53 million SIMs belonging to 38 million users have been verified through biometric screening in just last six weeks.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Syed Ismail Shah has said the remaining 49 million SIMs will be verified within 91 days.
The biometric verification system was introduced in August 2014, therefore, the SIMs registered before the system came into force would have to go through the verification process.
