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Formerly | Dawood Islamic Bank Limited |
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Company type | Islamic bank |
Founded | 2006 |
Defunct | 2016 |
Fate | Merged with Al Baraka Bank |
Successor | Al Baraka Bank |
Headquarters | Karachi , Pakistan |
Area served | Pakistan |
Key people | Ahmed Khizer Khan (CEO) |
Revenue | PKR 1,188 Million (2009) [1] |
PKR 292.63 Million (2014) [1] | |
Website | Official website |
Burj Bank Limited, formerly known as Dawood Islamic Bank Limited (DIBL), now merged into Al Baraka Bank, [2] was Pakistan's sixth full-fledged Islamic commercial bank. [3] The bank received its license from the State Bank of Pakistan in May 2006, [4] and officially commenced its operations on Friday, April 27, 2007.
The bank was the result of an initiative of the First Dawood Group, with the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) in Jeddah, Unicorn Investment Bank in Bahrain, Al Safat Investment Company in Kuwait, Gargash Enterprises (LLC) in Dubai, the Singapore-based entrepreneur Azam Essof Kolia and Shaikh Abdullah Mohammad Al-Romaizan, an entrepreneur from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In July 2011, the bank was renamed Burj Bank. [5]
Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman was heading Shariah Department of the Bank as the bank's Shariah advisor. It currently has 75 online branches.
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Burj Bank merged into the Al Baraka Bank in 2016. [6]
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