Despite numerous challenges, National Bank’s performance remained outstanding during the past five years. This was stated by Adnan Adil Hussain, Senior Vice President/Divisional Head of NBP here on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, Mr Adnan said that NBP products and strategies were based primarily around national priorities and catering horizontally scattered population. He was flanked by, Ibne-Hasan, Divisional Head and other senior members of flag carrier bank. “Look you have financial needs in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and other big cities growing vertically. Tell me about 121 districts in Pakistan, with over 50,000 villages and around 180 million masses, are they growing vertically in financial needs? No, obviously and NBP is the only bank handling them with their horizontal root to rise needs,” said Adnan while answering a question. While representing President Qmar Hussain and COO/Head C&RBG Dr. Asif A.Brohi, he proudly announced the enhancement in launch of NBP advance salary, cash& Gold scheme, agriculture products and NBP products in general. He said that NBP Advance Salary personal loan, finance facility was targeted towards public sector employees who were already NBP’s account holders. “ The product was an instant success and to date, NBP had disbursed more than PKR 210 billion and more than 1.6 million government employees have been benefited from scheme. Despite these huge volumes, the infection is only around 2%. All government employees receiving salaries through NBP can get personal finance up to Rs 1 million.” Adnan further said that NBP was enhancing services to the income strata that could seek Rs 1,000, 000. “ Agriculture is yet another area where NBP demonstrates its national commitment and resolve. NBP leds its counterparts by a huge margin and outreaches approximately more than 250,000 farmers in the nook and corner of the country,” Adnan added. Earlier, At the start of press briefing, the representatives of NBP paid rich tribute to Quaid-i-Azam on his 136th birth anniversary. “Let us pay tribute and Salute to our Quaid. It was the vision of Quaid that NBP is serving to carve out the picture that he wanted. Let NBP foster the financial cause that Quaid wanted, a well balanced Pakistan, that include financially structured Pakistan.”
