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Identity verification
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CNIC, Pakistani passport and Driving Licence on one session, with SBP-aligned AML screening against FMU + NACTA watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Pakistan.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Pakistani identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-CNIC attacks on the wave of branchless-banking wallets (JazzCash, Easypaisa, NayaPay, SadaPay) and SBP-licensed EMIs, NADRA-credential-theft scams targeting onboarding flows, and proscribed-organisation screening pressure following NACTA's expanded Proscribed Persons list under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010
  • SBP AML/CFT Regulations
  • SBP Branchless Banking Regulations
  • Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 (NACTA Proscribed Persons regime)
  • Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 (MoITT)
  • Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (PECA)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Pakistan.

These are the supervisors a Pakistan verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them, no separate integration per agency.
  • SBP

    State Bank of Pakistan, central bank and prudential supervisor for every bank, Microfinance Bank and Electronic Money Institution (EMI). Sets remote-onboarding rules under the AML/CFT Regulations and the Branchless Banking Regulations.

  • SECP

    Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, securities supervisor for capital-markets intermediaries, insurance carriers, modarabas and the emerging Digital Asset Service Provider landscape.

  • NADRA

    National Database and Registration Authority, issues every CNIC, SNIC, POC and NICOP. The authoritative civil-registry authority and the operator of the CNIC verification service that every Customer-Due-Diligence-bound institution must use.

  • FMU

    Financial Monitoring Unit, Pakistan's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and Currency Transaction Reports under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010.

  • NACTA

    National Counter Terrorism Authority, maintains the Proscribed Organizations and Proscribed Persons lists under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. Every SBP-supervised entity must screen against NACTA registers on every onboarding.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Pakistan database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Works for every primary Pakistani credential, CNIC (and the chip-enabled SNIC variant), Pakistani Passport with the chip read on e-Passports, POC for foreign nationals of Pakistani origin, NICOP for overseas Pakistanis, and the Driving Licence.
  • Returns the name (Latin + Urdu), CNIC number, date of birth, sex and address.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • CNIC · SNIC (Smart ID)
  • Pakistani Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • POC · NICOP · Driving Licence
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows, user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Pakistani watchlists:

  • National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), Proscribed Organizations, organisations proscribed under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.
  • National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) Pakistan, Proscribed Persons, individuals proscribed under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.
  • National Counter Terrorism Authority Pakistan, Denotified List, previously proscribed persons and organisations whose status has changed.
  • Pakistan Competition Authority, Enforcement Decisions, regulatory enforcement actions from the competition authority.
  • National Assembly of Pakistan, Politically Exposed Persons register, MNAs and senior parliamentary officials.
  • FMU, Financial Monitoring Unit suspicious-activity references, FMU-flagged entities and suspicious-transaction references.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

NADRA cross-check ships through partner integration.

Pakistan does not currently expose a public consumer-grade CNIC verification API to cross-border KYC vendors, NADRA's Verisys is licensed only to SBP-regulated entities and approved domestic partners under bilateral data-sharing agreements.

  • The hosted flow already covers CNIC / SNIC / POC / NICOP capture + OCR + biometric face-match against the document portrait, the operational baseline SBP AML/CFT Regulations expect.
  • SBP-regulated entities that hold a direct NADRA Verisys integration can onboard via the Enterprise tier using the pak_nadra_verisys BYO-source connector, so the NADRA lookup runs inline with the rest of the verification flow, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail.
  • Didit ships Database Validation for 40+ countries; the pak_nadra_verisys Enterprise connector bridges the gap for domestic institutions that already hold NADRA data-sharing agreements.
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Stage 04NADRA cross-check ships through partner integration

NADRA cross-check ships through partner integration , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Pakistan document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Pakistan.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter, the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
Read the security & compliance dossier
EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Pakistan.

What does Didit ship?

Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:

  • User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
  • Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
  • Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.

Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.

What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.

Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.

Which Pakistani regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Pakistani identity-verification flow:

  • State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), central bank and prudential supervisor for every bank, Microfinance Bank and Electronic Money Institution (EMI). Sets remote-onboarding rules under the AML/CFT Regulations and the Branchless Banking Regulations.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), securities supervisor for capital-markets intermediaries, insurance carriers and modarabas.
  • National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), issues every CNIC and operates the Verisys CNIC verification service.
  • Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU), Pakistan's FIU. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Does Didit cross-check Pakistani identities against NADRA Verisys?

Not directly as a cross-border vendor, and this is a market-wide constraint, not a Didit gap. NADRA's Verisys CNIC verification service is licensed only to SBP-regulated entities and approved domestic partners under bilateral data-sharing agreements; it is not exposed as a consumer-grade API to cross-border KYC vendors.

What Didit covers today:

  • CNIC, SNIC, POC and NICOP capture + OCR, full field extraction including the 13-digit CNIC number, name (Latin + Urdu), address.
  • Document authenticity check, confirms the card is genuine, not a forgery or screen capture.
  • Face Match against the photo on the card, biometric proof of cardholder presence.
  • AML screening against Pakistani regulatory watchlists, NACTA Proscribed Organizations / Proscribed Persons / Denotified List, Pakistan Competition Authority Decisions, National Assembly PEP register, FMU references.

If you hold a NADRA Verisys integration as an SBP-regulated entity, the Enterprise tier includes BYO-source onboarding so the lookup runs inline with the rest of the verification flow.

Does Didit screen against the NACTA Proscribed Persons list?

Yes, on every AML check. The Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 authorises the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) to proscribe organisations and individuals; institutions supervised by the SBP must screen every customer against the Proscribed Organizations list and the Proscribed Persons list, and check the Denotified List for status changes.

Didit's AML Screening module ($0.20 per check) ingests all three NACTA registers alongside the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, PEP and adverse-media lists, the Pakistan Competition Authority enforcement decisions, the National Assembly PEP register, and FMU suspicious-activity references. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) re-checks every customer daily and fires a webhook the moment a new hit appears.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Pakistan?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Pakistan stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Pakistani users?

English (Pakistan) and Urdu, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Pakistani users land on the English or Urdu flow by default. The admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, Urdu names on the CNIC / SNIC / POC / NICOP are preserved verbatim through OCR alongside the Latin transliteration.

What does the Pakistan verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Pakistan surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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