Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Lines in Pakistan

A helpline is a place to talk to someone when you are struggling, before or instead of a crisis. The lines on this page are answered by counsellors, volunteers or health staff, depending on the service. If you are not in Pakistan, the worldwide list is organised by country.

What you share is kept private in almost all cases; if a counsellor believes a life is in immediate danger, they may arrange urgent help. What each service costs is set out beside it below, because in Pakistan some of these numbers are free and others are charged at a normal rate.

TherapyRoute is a directory. We do not answer calls or messages ourselves, so please use the numbers below rather than contacting us if you need someone now.

CRISIS LINES, SUICIDE HOTLINES, AND HELPLINES IN PAKISTAN

Each number below was checked in August 2026 at the operating organisation's own website, or at the federal or provincial government page that runs the service.

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

Sehat Tahaffuz 1166, the national health helpline

Taskeen Health Initiative, 11 AM to 11 PM

Rozan Counseling Help Line, 0800-22-444

Sindh Mental Health Authority, for readers in Sindh

While you are waiting to be answered

If you are worried about someone else

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

Pakistan has no single number that covers every emergency. Three short codes cover the common cases and different bodies answer them.

Police: 15

The Islamabad Capital Territory Police tell citizens to dial 15 for emergency situations, and the Karachi Police publish the same code as Madadgar-15. Both are territorial forces rather than a federal service, so treat 15 as the number used across Pakistan rather than one formally declared national.

Rescue, ambulance and fire: 1122

Rescue 1122 is operated as a provincial service, and it is published by the Punjab government and by Sindh Emergency Rescue. It is not a single federal service, so whether it reaches you depends on where you are.

Ambulance: 115

The Edhi Foundation runs this ambulance service. Edhi is a charity rather than a state body, and neither its own page nor the police directory states a formal national scope, although its ambulances are widely available.

Fire brigade: 16

Sehat Tahaffuz 1166, the national health helpline

Sehat Tahaffuz-1166 is the federal health helpline, run by the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination and managed since January 2022 by the Federal Directorate of Immunization. Since April 2023 it has also carried a mental health service called Humraaz.

The Directorate describes Humraaz as "bridging the gap by connecting the mental health challenged citizens seeking help and assistance with appropriate counsellors and hospitals nationwide". Read that carefully before you call: it is a service that connects you to a counsellor or a hospital, rather than one that provides counselling on the call itself. Its own pages do not describe it as a suicide line or a crisis line.

The helpline is described by the Directorate as offering "free health services", and its project brief records that it became "toll-free in March 2020 to ensure nationwide accessibility".

Tel: 1166

Hours: not published. Neither the helpline's page nor its project brief states when it is answered.

Taskeen Health Initiative, 11 AM to 11 PM

Taskeen is a non-profit that describes itself as "working on increasing mental health awareness, providing free of cost mental health support and advocating for mental health policy change in Pakistan". It is the longest-running daily option on this page.

In its own words: "Taskeen provides free-of-cost telephonic mental health support from Monday to Saturday, 11 AM to 11 PM. Our team of trained mental health professionals ensure that our beneficiaries receive the best quality of care possible."

Taskeen also states its own limits, and they are worth knowing before you call: "we do not conduct formal psychological evaluations, or assessments, or provide any clinical diagnoses."

Tel: +92 316 827 5336

Email: help@taskeen.org

Hours: Monday to Saturday, 11 AM to 11 PM. Closed on Sundays.

Cost: free of cost, in the organisation's own words.

Rozan Counseling Help Line, 0800-22-444

Rozan runs a counselling helpline that, in its own description, "provides non-judgmental and confidential space to young people, women and children where they can call and share their concerns related to emotional, sexual and reproductive health, Violence Against Women (VAW) and girls and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)".

The organisation says it has "established a survivor centered, multisectoral response mechanism to deal cases of gender based violence (GBV)" and that the helpline "has an extensive and ethically trained referral network". Alongside the telephone line it offers counselling in person and by email. Rozan records that up to 2020 the line had received around 61,000 counselling calls from all over Pakistan.

Tel: 0800-22-444 — the number Rozan labels as toll-free.

Tel: 0304-111-1741 — Rozan notes regular charges apply to this one.

Email: helpline@rozan.org

Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:30 am to 05:00 pm, and 09:30 am to 03:00 pm during Ramadan. Closed at weekends.

Sindh Mental Health Authority, for readers in Sindh

The Sindh Mental Health Authority, a Government of Sindh body, publishes three helplines. Each is answered at a named public psychiatric institution, and all three are in Karachi or Hyderabad, so this is a provincial service rather than a national one.

The authority's page names the three lines without describing what they do beyond calling them helplines.

Tel: 021 111 117 642 — Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi.

Tel: 022 111 117 642 — Sir Cowasji Jahangir Institute of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Hyderabad.

Tel: 021 9921 5720 — Dr Ruth K. M. Pfau Civil Hospital, Karachi.

Hours: not published for the helplines. The authority publishes office hours beside its own switchboard, which is a different number, so those hours should not be assumed to apply here.

Cost: not published. These are ordinary geographic numbers rather than short codes, so a call may be charged.

While you are waiting to be answered

Several of these lines keep office hours, and a line that is open can still be busy. If you are waiting, try to stay with someone you trust, or ask someone to sit with you until the call connects.

If you have anything near you that you could use to harm yourself, put it somewhere harder to reach, or ask someone else to hold it for you. Distance and time both help.

If waiting is not possible, dial 15, 1122 or 115, or go to a hospital emergency department. You do not need an appointment and you do not need to explain yourself well.

If you are worried about someone else

Ask them directly. Asking someone whether they are thinking of suicide does not put the idea there, and it often comes as a relief to be asked plainly.

Listen more than you advise. You do not need the right words, and you are not expected to fix anything.

If they are willing, offer to sit with them while they call one of the numbers above, or to make the call together. If they are in immediate danger, treat it as you would any medical emergency.

Supporting someone through this is heavy, and it is reasonable to want support of your own. The same lines are open to you.

For services in other countries, see the list of helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide.

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