There’s some-more about we in your CNIC series than we know

The initial 5 digits and a final one of your CNIC series are formed on where we are from and what your gender is. PHOTO: Express

ISLAMABAD: There is some-more to computerised inhabitant temperament cards (CNICs) than people usually notice, point when it comes to the 13-digit series reserved to any individual.

When decoded, a digits have engaging revelations to make. Apart from a center partial of a digits that are pointless and have no specific meaning, a initial 5 digits have singular characteristics that entirely settle a temperament of a cardholder.

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The really initial of a 5 digits represents a cardholder’s province. Anyone whose CNIC series starts with a series ‘1’ shows that they go to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).

A CNIC series with a initial series ‘3’ display that a hilt is a proprietor of Punjab and a final series an peculiar series representing that he is male.

Similarly, a series ‘2’ represents Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), ‘3’ Punjab, ‘4’ Sindh, ‘5’ Balochistan ‘6’ Islamabad Capital Territory and 7′ means that a cardholder is from Gilgit-Baltistan.

The second series of a 5 digits represents a division, third represents a district, fourth a tehsil and a fifth and a final one shows a kinship warn in that a cardholder resides.

This CNIC series shows that a hilt with a initial series ‘1’ is from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and a womanlike since a final series is an even number.

According to sources in a National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), a center apportionment of a CNIC series carrying 7 digits is incidentally generated. The 13th and a final series of a CNICs, however, shows a gender of a cardholder.

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Male cardholders are awarded peculiar numbers like 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 while a females are issued even numbers.

Nadra issues CNIC numbers to a members of a transgender community according to either they brand themselves as women or men, allocating them even or peculiar numbers respectively.

Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1403682/theres-cnic-number-know/