Overview
- Special Savings Certificates now offer 11.60% and Regular Income Certificates 10.92%, according to the official notification.
- Short‑term Special Savings Certificates rise to 10.44% for three months and 10.64% for one year.
- Behbood Savings Certificates are reduced to 12.72%, with Pensioners’ Benefit Accounts set at the same 12.72% rate.
- Defence Savings Certificates are lowered to 11.31%, and the Shaheed/Shuhada Family Welfare Account also sees a 0.72 percentage point cut.
- Islamic term accounts increase for three‑ and five‑year tenors as the one‑year rate holds at 9.92%, while the standard Savings Account remains at 9.50%; the National Savings portfolio is cited at about Rs3.4 trillion serving over 4 million customers.