OKARA: Bank of Khyber (BoK) Managing Director Imran Samad formally inaugurated BOK’s Raast Islamic Banking Branch in Okara. According to a press release issued by the bank on Wednesday, Samad said that growth in all operational areas of the BoK Raast Islamic Banking shows the confidence of general public of BoK on Raast Islamc Banking branches.

He added that year 2013 is marked as 10th anniversary of establishment of Islamic banking by the BoK in 2003 and we successfully increased our Raast Banking branches over the period of one decade. Samad said BoK is committed to cater the banking requirements of Islamic banking in a befitting manner in order to encourage the economic developmental activities in the region through Islamic mode of financing.

The inaugural ceremony was also attended by notables of the area & business community apart from Group Head Islamic Banking Kamran Masood Khan, Divisional Heads of Business Developments Lal Nawaz Khan, Naveed Qureshi, Head Shariah Compliance Muhammad Asad, Shariah Advisor of BoK Abdul Samad Khan and Head Marketing Syed Ali Nawaz Gilani.—PR