LAHORE: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has approved a proposal of the Centre of Islamic Finance (CIF) and Comsats Institute of Information (CIIT) for capacity building of Shariah scholars and banking staff.

“The CIF, in collaboration with the SBP, will conduct capacity building training workshops for both the groups at all CIIT campuses in Lahore, Islamabad, Abbottabad, Attock, Wah,Vehari and Sahiwal,” said a press release on Thursday.

“The SBP will provide quality trainers and sponsor these training workshops while the CIIT will extend logistic support in all these cities for extensive outreach to promote and strengthen Islamic finance in the country,” it added.

Published in Dawn, April 28th, 2017