ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain on Wednesday asked a National Assembly standing committee to probe and report within a month on why the new Rs1,000 currency note carried an imprint of the national flag in lilac rather than green and why its wads were bound by a paper band and not staples as done in the past.
The order came after a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, Rashid Akbar Khan, protested against what he called “a big mistake” of the State Bank of Pakistan by printing the national flag with crescent and star in what he considered as red colour like the Turkish flag and not the actual green colour of the main portion of the flag.
“It is a big mistake and it should be rectified,” the apparently agitated member said about the currency note, whose surface of the flag is formed by lilac, rather than red, horizontal curves on the left of its front side that bears the portrait of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
The speaker said it had also come to his notice that one or two Rs1,000 notes had been found missing from the unstapled wads.
Minister of State for Finance Omar Ayub Khan said his ministry had no supervisory control over the central bank, which prints the currency notes. But he informed the house that a cabinet committee had considered the new design of the note.
