Ministry of Interior has decided to extend the deadline for SIM re-verification till May 15th, 2015, we have checked with sources.
This was decided during a high-level meeting, chaired by Ch. Nisar Ali Khan, Minister Interior.
A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesperson confirmed ProPakistani that deadline for re-verification of SIMs was extended till May 15th, 2015.
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PTA said that a white-list of around 11 million SIMs is made for which the deadline of re-verification is extended. Regulator said this list is mostly comprised of one SIM per CNIC.
Interestingly, there were 11 million SIMs that were left for verification on April 12th, 2015.
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PTA said that these numbers will be blocked after the new deadline.
Not to mention, PTA and Interior Ministry had repeatedly maintained that all un-verified SIMs were blocked on April 14th, 2015; the old deadline.
It is just not possible to comprehend that how come a deadline is extended, especially when numbers were already blocked.
