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The Bank of Khyber (BoK) was established in 1991 through an Act passed by the Provincial Legislative Assembly of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was awarded status of a scheduled bank in September 1994.
The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constituted a Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB). This is presently made of the following scholars:
1. Syed Muhammad Abbas
2. Mufti Muhammad Zahid
3. Dr Dost Muhammad
4. Shahzad Iqbal Sham
5. Muhammad Ayub

The global economy is facing a deep downturn as a result of the crisis. It was due to excessive
ability to create money and credit for earning increasing profits without creating anything of
value for use by the mankind. The system needs radical change in the approach, principles and
the operation of economic and financial systems. Creation of money, and lending it on interest –
interest based debts and financial obligations leading to undue receivables for the lenders, is
the biggest and primary problem of the conventional system. Islamic principles of finance
provide checks for the factors that have distorted the system. Enhanced supply of risk-related
capital, restricted risk taking, balanced return rate structure based on the real sector economic
activities, and supply of money commensurate with prospects of growth in an economy, provide
a sound basis for sustainable development. Hence, Islamic financial institutions and markets
have better ability to sustain in the hard times. Islamic banking industry should not only have
escaped unharmed during the crisis, it should also have availed the opportunity of developing