E-challan check online by vehicle number: PSCA Punjab, Islamabad and Karachi

9 min read · Facts checked 2026-10-04

Use the official page of the authority that issued the ticket. Islamabad Traffic Police's e-challan page searches by vehicle number. Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) wants the plate plus your CNIC or chassis number. For Karachi, Sindh Police's TRACS site wants your CNIC, registered mobile number and plate together. We could not load Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's page, and found no online lookup for motorway or Balochistan challans. VehicleCheckPK does not check challans.

We found no single e-challan or traffic challan check that covers all of Pakistan. Each traffic authority runs its own system, so the page you need depends on who issued the ticket. A search on one system tells you nothing about the others.

The table shows what each official page asked for when we checked it. Of the pages we could read, only Islamabad's searches by vehicle number without a CNIC or chassis number.

Islamabad e-challans are checked on the Islamabad Traffic Police e-challan page. Islamabad Traffic Police is often shortened to ITP. The form asks for:

• The vehicle registration number. You do not need a CNIC to search this way.
• Or your CNIC, or an e-ticket number, if you would rather search by one of those.
• A captcha shown on the page.

Results can include challans that have already been paid. Check the paid or unpaid status of each one before deciding what you owe.

The traffic record and the vehicle's registration record are held by different departments. Islamabad Excise holds registration and token tax, which our Islamabad vehicle verification page and the Islamabad token tax guide cover. Neither of those shows challans.

Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) camera fines are checked on the PSCA e-challan page. Its address ends in .gop.pk rather than .gov.pk, and that is the genuine one. PSCA's cameras operate in cities including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Gujranwala, Bahawalpur and Sargodha.

The plate alone will not do. The form asks for three things:

1. Registration number, in the format the page itself gives: ABC-00-0000. That is three letters, two digits and four digits, separated by dashes.
2. Your CNIC or your chassis number. The same field takes either. If you use the CNIC, type it without dashes, which is what the form's own validation message asks for.
3. A Google reCAPTCHA, the 'I'm not a robot' box.

If you use the chassis number, it is on your registration book or smart card, and also on the sale invoice and the sale certificate. On Pakistani papers it is labelled 'Chassis No.', not 'VIN'. Do not assume it is 17 characters long. Motorcycles and older locally assembled vehicles often carry shorter frame numbers, so type exactly what is printed.

PSCA does not hold every Punjab challan

PSCA's system holds Safe City camera fines. A challan written by a traffic warden sits in a separate system. ePay Punjab's public challan details page looks a challan up by its PSID, not by vehicle number. So it can find a challan whose PSID you already have, but not one you do not know about. A clean PSCA result says nothing about warden-issued tickets.

One more Punjab page turns up in searches. City Traffic Police Multan has a traffic challan page, but it is an information page. The only box on it is the website's own search.

Karachi e-challans are checked on Sindh Police's TRACS site. TRACS stands for Traffic Regulation and Citation System. We did not establish which other Sindh cities it covers.

Its form asks for the most of any page in this guide. All three of these are marked as required, and there is an 'I'm not a robot' check as well:

• CNIC Number
• Registered Mobile Number
• Vehicle Registration Number

If the vehicle is registered to a bank, a leasing company or another company, a separate tab takes the chassis number in place of the CNIC.

There is also an official TRACS app for citizens on the iPhone and Android app stores. We have not examined what the app asks for.

The Sindh excise registration record is a separate matter, held by a different department. See Sindh vehicle verification.

We could not confirm it. Peshawar Traffic Police has a challan verification page, and it is the page the KP Police website links to. We could not load it, so we cannot tell you what it asks you to type, or whether it searches by vehicle number.

The other KP traffic addresses we tried either lead back to that page, are empty placeholders, or do not exist. If you need to know about a challan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ask the traffic police who issued it.

No. We found no lookup that lets a driver search National Highways & Motorway Police tickets. The NHMP website has no challan or e-ticket search on it. NHMP's e-ticketing system and the e-NHMP app are the tools officers use to issue tickets on the spot, not a way for drivers to look one up.

The route open to a driver is to pay a motorway ticket against its PSID through a bank. Treat any site offering to find NHMP challans from a plate with suspicion: we found no official page that does it.

We found none. A search of government domains turned up traffic challan pages for Islamabad, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and nothing for Balochistan. Reporting describes traffic enforcement there as manual. For a Balochistan ticket, deal with the traffic police who issued it.

The official pages are the ones in the table above, and in search results they are outnumbered. One search for Islamabad's e-challan returned at least seven lookalike sites. A search for PSCA's page turned up the largest group of lookalikes we found. Results for Karachi and Sindh challans are crowded with them too. None of them is a traffic police page, and we cannot tell you where their answers come from.

Before you type a plate, a CNIC or a mobile number into an e-challan page, look at the address bar:

• Every official e-challan page in this guide ends in .gov.pk or .gop.pk. The lookalike sites we saw used addresses ending in .pk, .com.pk, .org.pk and .com.
• A familiar word in the name proves nothing. Lookalikes we saw had 'echallan', 'psca', 'punjab', 'karachi' and 'sindh' in their names.
• Not every government site uses those two endings. Sindh's excise department, for example, is on .gos.pk. So compare the whole address with the official page listed in this guide, rather than trusting the ending alone.
• Open the page from a link on a government site, or type the address yourself, rather than trusting the top search result.

No. VehicleCheckPK does not check challans for any region, and it does not look up people. It returns one thing: the excise registration record for a vehicle registered in Islamabad, from the plate alone.

That record shows the make, model, year, engine and chassis numbers, registration date and how far the token tax is paid. It holds no traffic fines. The box below is that registration lookup, not a challan check.

VehicleCheckPK is independent and not affiliated with any government department. The excise departments and police forces named here hold the authoritative records; for any legal purpose, confirm with them directly.