KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan, in collaboration with the Pakistan Banks’ Association, has introduced an SMS service for the issuance of fresh currency notes to public.
The move is aimed at facilitating the public in acquiring new currency notes for Eidul Fitr, said a statement issued by the SBP on Sunday.
The fresh notes will be available from branches of nominated commercial banks called ‘e-branches’ from July 8.
Under the facility, people will be required to send from their mobile phones SMSs containing their CNIC/Smart Card numbers along with the codes of bank branches where they wanted to collect the notes to 8877.
The reference codes of nominated ‘e-branches’ are available on the SBP website (www.sbp.org.pk) and PBA website.
