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EFU Life Assurance and EFU General Insurance, Pakistan's largest private insurance group, will offer sharia-compliant insurance products through takaful windows. The plans come two months after regulators cleared the way for conventional firms to offer Islamic products, part of regulatory effort to increase insurance penetration in Pakistan. Company officials declined to comment on their plans but a source at one of the units said the takaful windows could be operational in two to three months. The Securities Commission had earlier said it had received five applications for takaful windows and expected as many as half of all conventional insurers in Pakistan to eventually apply for a licence.