SUKKUR, Oct 24: The S.M.E. Bank management has decided to launch a category-wise remission package during Ramazan to help the bank borrowers of defunct Small Business Finance Corporation and Rural Development Finance Corporation to settle their long outstanding liabilities.

This was stated by the vice-president of the bank, Mr Suhail Ishtiaq Khan, while briefing about the salient features of the relief package here on Friday.

MOSQUES VISITED: District Nazim Nasir Hussain Shah, DPO Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh and the chairman of the Public Safety Commission, Shafqat Shah, visited several mosques and imambargahs on Friday to review security arrangements.

They urged administrations of mosques and imambargahs not to allow anyone carrying shopping bags and mobile phones to enter the places of worship.

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