After you find it
How to pay a challan using your PSID
Every e-challan generates a PSID — a Payment Slip ID, usually a long number shown with the violation details. Copy it exactly. Every payment channel below asks for the same PSID, so you only need to find it once.
ePay Punjab app
Open the app → Traffic Challan / E-Challan → enter PSID or vehicle number → confirm the amount → pay by card or wallet.
JazzCash
Bill Payments → Traffic Challan or E-Challan → enter vehicle number or PSID → select the challans to clear → confirm.
Easypaisa
Government Payments → Traffic Fine / E-Challan → enter PSID or registration number → pay and keep the SMS receipt.
1LINK ATM or bank app
Bill Payment → Government → enter the PSID as the consumer number. Works from most Pakistani bank apps and ATMs.
Give it 48 hours. Payment usually clears within a day, but the portal can take up to two days to flip the status to Paid. Do not pay twice if it still shows pending — check the SMS receipt first, and keep it until the status updates.
Punjab · Gazette notification of 7 May 2026
Traffic fines and the new penalty points system
Punjab revised penalties for 26 traffic violations in a notification published in the Punjab Gazette on 7 May 2026, and introduced penalty points alongside the fine. Points accumulate against the licence record you can look up here, and enough of them put your licence at risk — so a challan now costs more than money.
Confirmed amounts from the May 2026 notification. Where we could not verify an exact figure, we say so rather than guess.
| Violation | Fine | Points |
|---|
Overspeeding
Rs 2,000 for motorcycles and three-wheelers, scaling up by vehicle category to Rs 10,000 for heavy transport | Rs 2,000 – 10,000 | 4 points |
| Reckless or negligent driving | Up to Rs 10,000 | 4 points |
Driving without a valid licence
Varies by vehicle category | Rs 2,000 – 5,000 | — |
| No fitness certificate | Up to Rs 5,000 | — |
| Fake or tampered number plate | Up to Rs 5,000 | — |
Also covered by the notification
Signal breaking · wrong-way driving · overloading · driving without lights · illegal parking · mobile phone use while driving · excessive smoke emission · route permit violation · pressure horn in a silence zone · riding without a helmet · more than two people on a motorcycle | Confirm on your challan | Varies |
Fines differ between provinces and are revised periodically. The amount printed on your own challan is the one that applies — treat this table as orientation, not as a quote.
Why an unpaid challan matters later
- Token tax renewal can stall. Outstanding fines are increasingly linked to Excise records, so a pending challan can hold up your annual token.
- Ownership transfer gets blocked. Selling the vehicle with unpaid challans attached usually means clearing them first.
- Penalty points stack. Repeat offences in Punjab now accumulate points that can lead to licence suspension, independently of whether you paid the fine — and getting back on the road means paying the fresh or renewal licence fee all over again.
- Buying used? Check first. Run the plate through the portal before you pay for a second-hand car or bike. Challans follow the vehicle, and you inherit the problem.
Most of the violations in that table are avoidable with the basics — if you are still learning, the free road sign and theory practice test covers the rules these fines enforce.
Read this before you pay anything
Fake challan SMS and payment scams
Because real challans arrive by SMS, fake ones do too. Scam messages copy the wording of a genuine PSCA or ITP alert and add a link that leads to a cloned payment page. Some ask for your card details, some ask you to "verify" your CNIC.
How to tell a fake from the real thing
- Never pay from a link in an SMS. A genuine challan can always be found by searching your plate on the official portal. If it is not there, it does not exist.
- Check the domain character by character. Real portals end in .gov.pk or .gop.pk. Lookalikes use .com, .pk, hyphens and misspellings.
- No authority asks for your full card number, CVV, PIN or OTP. Ever. Paying by PSID never requires those on a web page.
- Be suspicious of urgency. "Pay within 2 hours or your licence is cancelled" is not how enforcement works.
- Cross-check the vehicle. If the SMS names a plate that is not yours, it is a mass-send. Delete it.
If you have already entered card details on a suspicious page, call your bank immediately and block the card. Report the number to the PTA and, if money was taken, to the FIA Cybercrime Wing.
If the challan is wrong
How to dispute an e-challan
Camera enforcement makes mistakes. Plate misreads are the most common — an ANPR camera confuses similar characters, or reads a plate belonging to a vehicle that looks like yours. Cloned plates are the second most common cause.
- Download the challan and look at the photo evidence. Every camera-issued challan stores an image. Check the plate, the vehicle make and colour, and the timestamp against where you actually were.
- Gather proof. Fuel receipts, toll records, workplace attendance, photographs of your own vehicle showing a different colour or model — anything placing you elsewhere. If the challan names a driver rather than just the vehicle, it is worth confirming the licence details on record too.
- Contact the issuing authority, not a middleman. PSCA for Punjab Safe City challans, ITP for Islamabad, the relevant traffic police office otherwise. Take the challan number and your evidence.
- Do it before you pay. Paying is generally treated as accepting the violation, which makes a reversal much harder.
- Keep every reference number. Note who you spoke to and when. Disputes can take several visits.
If your plate has been cloned, report it to the police and to Excise as well — otherwise the challans will keep arriving. We cover the paperwork side of this in more depth on the SignTest blog.
Transparency
Sources and review
Portal addresses were checked on 4 August 2026. Fine figures come from reporting on the Punjab Gazette notification of 7 May 2026 covering 26 traffic violations and the associated penalty points system. Where a figure could not be verified against a primary source, this page says so instead of publishing a number.
- Punjab Safe Cities Authority e-challan portal — echallan.psca.gop.pk
- Islamabad Police e-challan page — islamabadpolice.gov.pk/echallan.php
- Punjab Gazette notification, 7 May 2026 — revised penalties and point deductions for 26 violations
- Sindh Police, KP Police and National Highways & Motorway Police public information
Review schedule: portal links checked monthly; fine tables reviewed on any provincial gazette notification. Last full review 4 August 2026.