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  • Banks asked to dedicate one-fifth of branches to agri-lending

    QUETTA: The Agricultural Credit Advisory Committee (ACAC) has proposed that banks should dedicate at least 20 per cent of total branches to agri-lending, according to a press release on Saturday...

    The ACAC proposed that the availability of agri credit officers in agri lending branches should be ensured...

  • FBR, NBP branches to remain open today

    It said that the SBP has directed settlement/clearing of FBR transactions on month-end as follows:The NBP branches (A, B and C) will settle their transactions on same day (May 30) with respective SBP-BSC offices for which a special clearing will be arranged at 03:00pm by NIFT and NBP will settle the transactions with SBP-BSC by 9:00pm...

  • Altaf calls PTI, JI ‘branches of Taliban, Al Qaeda’

    KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has called the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Jamaat-i-Islami ‘bran­ches of the Taliban and Al Qaeda’ and predicted a massive defeat for his party’s rivals in the NA-246 by-election on April 23...

    Addressing a huge rally on Liaquatabad flyover on Saturday, the MQM chief said the people of Karachi had already rejected the pro-Taliban forces and they would vote for his ‘progressive,...
  • NBP branches to remain open till late evening today

    KARACHI: The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has announced that on Monday all its branches in the country will remain open till late in the evening, and will even arrange iftari for customers banking around that time...

    It said the bank’s branches remained open till 8pm on June 29 and until midnight on June 30...

  • Faysal Bank to open over 100 branches

    DUBAI: Bahrain-based Ithmaar Bank plans to add more than 100 branches in Pakistan this year through its subsidiary Faysal Bank, to capitalise on the country’s low penetration rate of banking services, a senior executive said...

    “We are planning to be over 500 branches this coming year and are aggressive in this,” al-Mutawa said in an interview...

  • NBP taking Covid-19 measures at all branches

    KARACHI: The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has said that it is taking Covid-19 precautionary measures and social distancing initiatives at all branches...

    In a press release issued on Friday, the bank said that in order to serve its customers during these challenging times, all branches have taken all necessary measures possible...

  • HEC gives itself clean chit in fake degree scandal

    ISLAMABAD: In the face of intense public pressure, the Higher Education Commission on Wednesday reaffirmed that its processes for attesting international degrees were “satisfactory”...

    In the wake of the Axact scandal, where a Pakistani software firm was accused by the New York Times of awarding fake degrees and diplomas through online universities and institutions, a committee of academic experts met at the HEC office to review the...
  • PAT announces countrywide protests over clean chit to Shahbaz, Rana

    LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Thursday announced that it would stage countrywide protests from tomorrow over the decision of a joint investigation team (JIT) — constituted to investigate last year's Model Town tragedy — to give clean chits to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and former provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah from charges of ordering or abetting police action against the supporters of PAT chief Tahirul...

  • Chit-chat with some chaat

    While Andaaz faces Badshahi Mosque on Fort Road, Chit Chaat is tucked away in a service lane on main Jail Road...

    I had earlier been to Chit Chaat for breakfast also...

  • Supreme Court gives reprieve to Sharif, but no clean chit

    • Verdict in Panama Papers case orders formation of JIT to investigate PM’s and family’s assets for irregularities• Justices Khosa and Gulzar dissent, say PM no longer sadiq and ameen• Special bench to monitor probe, give directions on PM’s disqualification• FIA-led JIT will comprise ISI, MI, NAB, SECP and SBP officialsISLAMABAD: In a verdict that may change the course of Pakistan’s political history, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a...

  • NAB gives a clean chit to Dar in Rs130bn case

    ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: After 15-year investigation, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has given a clean chit to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in over Rs130 billion corruption case...

    The fifth one was against Syed Mussarrat Abbas, former additional secretary, Senate Secretariat, Islamabad and others who misused authority and committed criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds of the Senate Secretariat Employees Cooperative...

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