Govt raises threshold for currency transaction reports to Rs3m as anti-money laundering framework reviewed

ISLAMABAD: The government has enhanced the currency transaction threshold by 50pc to Rs3 million for banks to trigger suspicious reports to the Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) of the State Bank of Pakistan under the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA). The incre…

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• Desk: Politics
• Filed: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:15:34 GMT
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