Telephone numbers in Pakistan
Country code: +92
International call prefix: 00
Trunk prefix: 0
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[edit] Fixed (landline) numbers
Area codes in Pakistan are from two to five digits long; the smaller the city, the longer the prefix. All the large cities have a two-digit code.
Smaller towns have a six digit number. Large cities have seven digit numbers. Azad Jammu and Kashmir has five digit numbers. On 1 July 2009, telephone numbers in Karachi and Lahore were changed from seven digits to eight digits. This was accomplished by adding the digit "9" to the beginning of any phone number that started with a "9" (government and semi-government connexions), and adding the digit "3" to any phone numbers that did not start with the number "9".[1]
It is common to write phone numbers as (0xx) yyyyyyy, where xx is the area code. The 0 prefix is for trunk (long-distance) dialling from within the country. International callers should dial +92 xx yyyyyyyy.
All mobile phone codes are four digits long and start with 03xx. All mobile numbers are seven digits long, and denote the mobile provider on nationwide basis and not geographic location. Thus all Telenor numbers (for example) nationwide carry mobile code 0345 etc etc.
NWD (area) codes for common cities are:
- 021 xxxxxxxx: Karachi
- 051 xxxxxxx: Islamabad / Rawalpindi
- 042 xxxxxxxx: Lahore
- 041 xxxxxxx: Faisalabad
- 022 xxxxxxx: Hyderabad
- 081 xxxxxxx: Quetta
- 091 xxxxxxx: Peshawar
- 052 xxxxxxx: Sialkot
- 0966xxxxxxx: Dera Ismail Khan
- 064 xxxxxxx: Dera Ghazi Khan
- 053 xxxxxxx: Gujrat
- 061 xxxxxxx: Multan
- 062 xxxxxxx: Bahawalpur
- 055 xxxxxxx: Gujranwala
- 0544 xxxxxx: Jhelum
- 0546 xxxxxx: Mandi Bahauddin
- 0926 xxxxxx: Parachinar FATA
- 0483 xxxxxx: Sargodha
Premium Rate services:
- 0900 xxxxx
Toll free numbers (For callers within Pakistan):
- 0800 xxxxx
You also can visit the following link to see the detailed list of dialing codes of different cities of Pakistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialling_codes_of_Pakistan
[edit] Mobile telephone numbers
Mobile telephone numbers in Pakistan are of the following format 03XZ-YYYYYYY where X is the single letter code assigned to a specific mobile telephone operator and Z-YYYYYYY is the local telephone number from any mobile phone or Land Line.
- 3 - is the Mobile Access code
- Z can be any value between 2 and 9, assigned by the operator herself, excepet in case of SCO where Z=5 only
- X=0 Mobilink
- X=1 Zong
- X=2 Warid
- X=3 Ufone
- X=4 Telenor
- X=5 SCO (Z=5 only)
- X=6 Instaphone
Existing Codes
- 364 - Instaphone (Previously 320)
- 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309 - Mobilink
- 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347 - Telenor
- 321, 322, 323, 324 - Warid Telecom
- 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336 - Ufone
- 312, 313, 314, 315 - ZONG
- 355 - SCO
International callers must dial +92-3XZ-YYYYYYY to reach a mobile number in Pakistan from outside of Paksitan, where '+92' is the Country Code, '3XZ' is Mobile Access Code as per the above list and 'YYYYYYY' is personal number.
Within Pakistan the same number can be reached by dialing either 03XZ-YYYYYYY or '0092-3XZ-YYYYYYY' or '+92-3XZ-YYYYYYY' from any mobile device or land line.
In order to dial a land line number from a mobile phone in Pakistan, city code is required in all cases. However, city code is not required between land line calls within the same city. For instance, to call a land line number 'YYYYYYY' from another land line in the same city, dial only 'YYYYYYY'. However, to call this number from another land line in another city or from a mobile phone anywhere (same city or another city), dial '(0XX)-YYYYYYY'.
[edit] References
- ^ "Karachi and Lahore now have eight digit phone numbers. In the near future this will be extended to other metros.". Daily Times (Pakistan). 2009-07-08. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\07\08\story_8-7-2009_pg5_8. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
