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Meezan Bank

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “publicly listed company offering islamic banking in pakistan”. Today it says “pakistani islamic bank headquartered in karachi”.
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Meezan Bank Head Office at Shershah, Karachi, Pakistan. Meezan Bank (Urdu میزان بینک) is the first and largest Islamic commercial Bank of Pakistan . The Bank is headquartered in Meezan House - Karachi, Pakistan . It has a network of over 430 branches in more than 100 cities of Pakistan .1 It commenced operations in 2002 when State Bank of Pakistan issued first-ever license for Islamic commercial banking.2 The Bank has a market share of 35% in Islamic banking industry of the country.3

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publicly listed company offering islamic banking in pakistan

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pakistani islamic bank headquartered in karachi

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