Summary The app helps users to identify and check the security features of Pakistani Banknotes.
KARACHI (Web Desk) – The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has introduced an official application to increase awareness about security features of Pakistani Banknotes.
The app helps users to identify and check the security features of Pakistani Banknotes and save themselves from the risk of counterfeit notes.
In the application, the user can select the desired banknote image and know the security features of Pakistani currency.
The app contains information about Pakistani Banknotes in English as well as in Urdu language. It is available on Google Play and iTunes.
Pakistani police and the country’s Federal Investigation Agency have arrested dozens of criminal gangs involved in the production of fake currency in the past.
On February 25, police arrested seven people and seized a huge amount of fake currency including US dollars and UAE Dirhams during a raid on a factory in the eastern city of Lahore.
The fake currency, which also included Pakistani rupee, was worth millions of US dollars, senior police official Umar Virk told.
Lahore police also recovered machines, equipment, chemicals and a large amount of other material used to print fake currency.
Officers had been searching for the facility for some time and had recently raided a number of houses.
Virk said further investigations were underway and police were questioning gang members with a view to arresting "other members of the group".
