Karachi. The National Bank of Pakistan, a renowned institution, has fulfilled of its successful 60 years of significant public services. It is pertinent to note that it has been established due to an ordinance, which made pragmatic and effective position as a financial institution in south Asia under the matchless supervision of Syed Ali Raza. In the last 60 years it took many bold and courageous steps including supervised agriculture credit and similarly it issued loans for small medium enterprises. It has received both national and international awards e.g. the Bank of the Year award, Global Financing Award, The Banker Euro Money, The Kisan Time Award and Asian Time Award.

NPP is at service to the nation from its inception and pioneered number of new schemes of financing and took number of bold initiatives in the banking history of Pakistan as the first bank which started agriculture loan under Supervised Agriculture Credit Programme, the first bank and still the only bank which finances against gold and first bank which started Peoples Credit Scheme for small traders.

NBP is offering its valuable services in almost all the areas of banking as from Corporate and Commercial and Retail Banking to Agriculture and Islamic Banking. Apart from this NBP has taken major steps in the areas of Risk Management, Information Technology, Operations and Human Resources.

The bank strongly believes in hiring young and energetic employees and also attracting, developing and retaining good quality human resource. NBP also strongly believes in equal opportunity employment and pays special attention to encourage women to take part in organisational development along with their career progression.

This is proved by recent conferences and seminars held for women managers/officers of NBP by Human Resources Department. National Bank of Pakistan is taking number of steps in order to further enhance its image; few of the initiatives are mentioned as under: Branch Renovations, Branch Branding, Introducing Customer Facilitation Centers, Introducing New Products, Setting higher standards of service and quality and Special services to Senior Citizens.

NBP enjoys the highest rating of AAA on stand-alone basis and comfortable capital adequacy ratios, position NBP well in front of competitors for future growth. The bank also nurtures a strong commitment towards the community, NBP has seen one of the major contributor in the times of need to Pakistan as NBP contributed in earthquake 2005 and Earthquake in Balochistan in 2008, flood affectees of NWFP in 2008 and also NBP contributes and donates to reputed organisations, educational institutions, hospitals, NGOs, disabled persons and other CSR activities for charitable, social, educational and public welfare purposes.