🇵🇰 Pakistan

Overview

AiPrise verifies Pakistani businesses against the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) company register. A business verification returns the company profile.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, status, registration date, registered address
Directors	No	Returned for very few companies
Shareholders	No	Returned for very few companies
Ultimate beneficial owners	No

Document	Returned
Register extract	No
Articles of association	No
Financial statements	No
UBO extract	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company data)	15 seconds	63 seconds

These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

Companies registered with the SECP are covered. The legal form is not returned as a separate field.

Sources

Register	What it gives
Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP)	Company profile

Identifiers

Send the company registration number as business_entity_id, with country_code set to PK.

Identifier	Format	Example
Company registration number (CUIN)	7 digits	`0123456`

You can also search by legal name.

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
Active	Active
(empty)	Unknown

entity_type is empty for Pakistani results.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Profile only	Expect the company profile only. Directors and shareholders come back for about 1 in 25 companies.
Missing status	About 1 in 10 results have no register status and normalise to `Unknown`.

Limits

Directors, shareholders, UBOs and documents are not returned for most companies.
The legal form is not returned.