KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced bank holidays in connection with Eidul Fitr. “The banks will remain closed from July 5 to July 8 2016 on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr,” said a statement of SBP on Thursday.
Earlier, in order to facilitate the general public, SBP requested banks to keep all their branches operational on the first two Saturdays of July 2016 which were supposed to stay operational only on July 4 due to Eid holidays and the routine Saturday /Sunday off.
For early replenishment of cash at ATMs, banks have been ordered to make proper arrangements of currency stock at their respective ATM feeding branches. Commercial banks have been directed to make the contact numbers of focal person public, to quickly sort out complaints relating to malfunctioning or shortage of currency notes in ATMs.
News channels, however, reported that customers were facing problems across the country to withdraw the money from ATMs. At some places the links were down while in other places, ATMs were out of cash.
