Similarly, Islamic banks and foreign banks will have to open rural branches once they reach the threshold of 100 branches. In addition, SBP has allowed banks to establish sub branches, booth and service centre of commercial banks in inner regions where it is costly to maintain a full fledged branch.
These sub branches can be managed by skeleton staff and can act as an extended arm of the near by branch for performing limited banking functions such as deposits, withdrawals, issuance of demand draft, telegraphic transfer etc. and also facilitate payment of home remittances to their beneficiaries.