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   Note: This section last updated 13th March 2021

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   ۱٫۲۳۴٬۴۵

(where ٬ indicates the decimal separator and ٫ the thousands separator)

Note that the Indian numbering system is used in Pakistan, whereby digits are written grouped in twos apart from the final three before the decimal point. Thus, a lakh (one hundred thousand) is written 1,00,000.00 and a crore (ten million, written karor or کروڑ in Urdu) is written 1,00,00,000.00.

   Note: This section last updated 29th May 2021

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Pakistan has 66 languages. The official languages are Urdu (10 719 000 mother-tongue speakers) and English (mainly second-language speakers). The other main languages are: Eastern Balochi (1 730 000 speakers) (written in Urdu script); Southern Balochi (2 350 000 speakers) (written in Urdu script); Western Balochi (1 000 000 speakers) (written in Urdu script); Brahui (1 500 000 speakers) (written in Nastaliq script); Eastern Farsi (1 000 000 speakers); Gujarati ; Northern Hindko (1 875 000 speakers); Western Panjabi (30-45 000 000 speakers) (written using Perso-Arabic script); Eastern Pashto (9 585 000 speakers) (written using Perso-Arabic script); Southern Pashto (1 000 000 speakers) (written using Perso-Arabic script); Saraiki (15 000 000 speakers) and Sindhi (16 992 000 speakers) (written in Arabic and Gurumukhi scripts).

Pakistani company legal forms include:

   Limited (Ltd) 
   Private Limited Company (Pvt. Ltd)
   SME Pvt (Ltd) - Single Member Company
   Unlimited 

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

Addresses written in a non-native language will be written in English.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

Pakistani postal codes (introduced in 1988 and known locally as Post Codes) consist of a block of 5 digits. The first two indicate the routing district, the last three the post office. The first digit cannot be 0.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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   Note: This section last updated 22nd March 2019

Pakistan has 4 provinces , 2 centrally administered areas (shown in the list below with ∆) and 1 capital territory (shown in the list below with a ‡):

Province	Postal code ranges
Azad Kashmir ∆	10-13
Balochistan	8,90-96
Gilgit-Baltistan ∆ (previously: Northern Area)	14-16
Islamabad Capital Territory ‡	44-45
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (previously: North-West Frontier)	17-19, 2
Punjab	3,40-43, 46-49, 5, 60-64
Sindh	7

The Pakistani-administered part of Jammu and Kashmir, disputed with India, includes the territories of Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas.

   This regions/postal code data can be acquired as a data file 

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Pakistani area codes have 2 or 3 digits when called from abroad, and full numbers have 10 digits. Mobile numbers have the area codes 30-34 or 36.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm