PTA Blocked Over 3.2 Million Phone SIMs in a Year

The document states that between July 2024 and June 2025, the PTA, in coordination with the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, conducted extensive enforcement actions against unauthorized issuance of local and international SIMs

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A total of 44 raids were carried out in 24 cities targeting local SIM fraud, leading to the confiscation of over 5,300 SIMs, 99 biometric devices and more than 250,000 digital fingerprints, along with 71 arrests.