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e. Islamic banking, Islamic finance (Arabic: مصرفية إسلاميةmasrifiyya 'islamia), or Sharia-compliant finance[ 1 ] is banking or financing activity that complies with Sharia (Islamic law) and its practical application through the development of Islamic economics. Some of the modes of Islamic finance include mudarabah (profit-sharing ...
Profit and Loss Sharing (also called PLS or participatory banking) refers to Sharia-compliant forms of equity financing such as mudarabah and musharakah. These mechanisms comply with the religious prohibition on interest on loans that most Muslims subscribe to. Mudarabah (مضاربة) refers to "trustee finance" or passive partnership contract ...
The Employees' Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) (Urdu: ادارہِ مراعاتِ معمّر ملازمین) is the pension, old age benefits and social insurance institution of the Government of Pakistan. It operates under the control of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development. [1] It came into formation in 1976 ...
Kashf Foundation (Urdu: کشف فاؤنڈیشن) is a non-profit organization, founded by Roshaneh Zafar in 1996. [1] Kashf is regarded as the first microfinance institution (MFI) of Pakistan that uses village banking methodology in microcredit to alleviate poverty by providing affordable financial and non-financial services to low income households - particularly for women, to build their ...
Amid these economic dynamics, Pakistan underwent a structural transition. The GDP share of agriculture declined from 53% in 1947 to 21.2% in 2010, while the GDP share of industry rose from 9.6% in 1949–50 to 25.4% in 2010. Additionally, the GDP share of the services sector increased from 37.2% in 1950 to 53.4% in 2010.
Budget. US$ 1.15 Billion [1] Employees. 2,381 [2] Website. bisp.gov.pk. The program is named after Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a federal unconditional cash transfer poverty reduction program in Pakistan. Launched in July 2008, it was the largest single social safety net program in the country ...
v. t. e. Takaful (Arabic: التكافل, sometimes translated as "solidarity" or mutual guarantee) [ 1 ] is a co-operative system of reimbursement or repayment in case of loss, organized as an Islamic or sharia -compliant alternative to conventional insurance, which contains riba (usury) and gharar (excessive uncertainty). [ 2 ]
The Ministry of Finance is a Cabinet-level ministry of the Government of Pakistan in charge of government finance, physical policy and financial regulation. It is headed by a Finance Minister, an executive or cabinet position. The Minister is responsible each year for presenting the federal government's budget to the Parliament of Pakistan.