In 2012 Pakistan has completed ten eventful years of Islamization of the economy of the country. Now there are full-fledged Islamic banks, Takaful operators and Shariah compliant mutual funds operating in the country. This March asset base of Islamic banking industry (IBI) reached Rs644 billion or 7.7 per cent share of the overall banking industry in the country. By end of the first quarter deposits of IBI grew to Rs530 billion.
Appoint of concern has been rising delinquencies. The strength of IBI is evident from the fact that despite surge in NPFs, earnings remained strong as depicted by ROA and ROE which is higher than that of overall banking industry………………………………………..Full Article: Source