Exchanging currency: ‘Another chance to exchange notes’

KARACHI: Javed Mirza, the president of a welfare society in Shireen Jinnah Colony, requested the government, ministry of finance and the governor of State Bank of Pakistan to extend the deadline for exchanging old 500-rupee notes. The last date was September 30, but a lot of people from flood-hit areas could not get it done.  “The people suffered greatly from the closing date for exchange, the government should give them another chance,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18^th, 2011.