The basic purpose of assigning a specific and unique post code to each area is to minimize the chances of wrong or missending mails and making the speeding the process of sending mails and letters. The official post codes for Pakistani cities and areas were first time recognized on January 01, 1988 for simplifying the process of delivery and sortation easy and simple. These codes represents those post offices under whose jurisdiction any specific address falls. Pakistan Post Office was officially recognized as the Government Post Office in 1962 and before date, it was functioning as the Department of Post and Telegraph. So, in 1962, Department of Telegraph was separated from the Department of Post and both started to work independently.
Here is the complete list of all Pakistan post codes along with post offices. The word GPO in the list denotes the General Post Office.
Federal/Islamabad Postal Codes
| Islamabad GPO | 44000 |
| Islamabad Prime Minister Sectt | 44010 |
| Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam University | 45320 |
Punjab Postal Codes
| Attock GPO | 43600 |
| Bahawalnagar GPO | 62300 |
| Bahawalpur GPO | 63100 |
| Bhakkar GPO | 30000 |
| Bhawana GPO | 35350 |
| Chaklala Cantt | 46200 |
| Chakwal | 48800 |
| Chiniot | 35400 |
| Choa Saidan Shah | 48320 |
| Choha Khalsa | 47470 |
| Daska | 51010 |
| Dera Ghazi Khan | 32200 |
| Dina | 49400 |
| Faisalabad | 38000 |
| Fateh Jang | 43350 |
| Gujar Khan | 47850 |
| Gujranwala | 52250 |
| Gujrat | 50723 |
| Hafizabad | 57000 |
| Haroonabad | 62100 |
| Hasan Abdal | 43730 |
| Jalalpur Jattan | 50780 |
| Jhang | 35200 |
| Jhelum | 49600 |
| Kallar Kahar | 48530 |
| Kasur | 55100 |
| Kot Radha Kishan | 55180 |
| Lahore Aitchison College | 54030 |
| Lahore AlFalah | 54020 |
| Lahore Batapur | 53400 |
| Lahore Cantt | 54810 |
| Lahore CMA Cantt | 54800 |
| Lahore Ferozepur Road | 54600 |
| Lahore Governor House | 54880 |
| Lahore GPO | 54000 |
| Lahore Gulberg | 54660 |
| Lahore Model Town | 54700 |
| Lalamusa | 50200 |
| Muzaffargarh GPO | 34200 |
| Rawalpindi Cantt | 45000 |
| Rawalpindi GPO | 46000 |
| Rawalpindi Satellite Town | 46300 |
| Rawalpindi Westridge | 46060 |
| Sargodha | 40100 |
| Sialkot GPO | 51310 |
| Sillanwali | 40010 |
| Vehari | 61100 |
| Wah Cantt | 47040 |
Sindh Postal Codes
| Badin | 72220 |
| Hyderabad GPO | 71000 |
| Jacobabad | 79000 |
| Jang Shahi | 73110 |
| Karachi Al-Haidry | 74700 |
| Karachi Board Office | 75990 |
| Karachi City GPO | 74000 |
| Karachi Defence | 75500 |
| Karachi Federal B Area | 75950 |
| Karachi GPO | 74200 |
| Karachi Gulistan-e-Jauhar | 75290 |
| Karachi Gulshan-e-Iqbal | 75300 |
| Karachi Korangi | 74900 |
| Karachi Metroville III | 75840 |
| Karachi P.E.C.H.S. | 75400 |
| Karachi University | 75270 |
| Sukkur | 65200 |
KPK Postal Codes
| Abbotabad GPO | 22010 |
| Bannu GPO | 28100 |
| Batkhela GPO | 23020 |
| Balakot | 21230 |
| Charsadda | 24420 |
| Dera Ismail Khan | 29050 |
| Dir | 18000 |
| Hangu | 26190 |
| Haripur | 22620 |
Baluchistan Postal Codes
| Gwadar | 91200 |
| Jiwani | 91400 |
| Kalat | 88300 |
| Quetta Airport | 87650 |
| Quetta Satellite Town | 87500 |
| Quetta GPO | 87300 |
| Zhob | 85200 |
Azad Jammu & Kashmir Postal Codes
| Bagh GPO | 12500 |
Northern Areas Postal Codes
| Chitral | 17200 |
| Gilgit | 15100 |
