KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday said it will issue a commemorative coin of Rs50 from Monday, Dec 10, to ma­rk the International Anti-Corruption Day.

On Oct 31, 2003, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the convention against corruption and designated Dec 9 as International Anti-Corrup­tion Day to raise public awareness about it.

The government has now authorised SBP to issue Rs50 commemorative coin which will be available through exchange counters of all the field offices of SBP Banking Services Corp­oration from Dec 10.

Published in Dawn, December 8th, 2018

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