In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Bilour, who is also a former senator, observed that the designated braches of the scheduled banks were overburdened with long queues of commercial depositors/clients like hospitals, plazas, petrol pumps etc., as well as those who had to pay their utility bills, leading to multiple security risks, including the risk of exposure to Covid-19. In order to reduce the burden on designated branches, he suggested to the government to order opening of all branches with skeleton staff to share the burden of clients and reduce security risks and to streamline the traffic flow and cut pollution.

He said that long queues outside banks triggered harsh arguments between security personnel and clients.

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