CDNS Hits Rs22B Islamic Finance in 4.5 Months

ISLAMABAD: The Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) has stormed to Rs22 billion in Islamic finance investments in just four-and-a-half months of FY2025-26, charging toward its Rs25 billion annual target, a senior official declared.

Last year, CDNS smashed its goal with Rs24 billion; this year it’s doubling down to supercharge Pakistan’s Islamic economy. Islamic bonds are the weapon of choice—Rs75 billion raised last year, with new dimensions incoming.

CDNS is bulldozing the institutional framework to dominate the global Islamic finance surge. Meanwhile, it’s gunning for Rs1.3 trillion in total savings inflows this year—already Rs400 billion in the bag by mid-September.