Habib Bank PLC Zurich (in german Habib Bank AG Zürich) was founded in 1967 as a branch of Habib Bank Limited in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Following the nationalisation of the Habib Bank Limited in Pakistan in 1974, Hyder Mohamedali Habib moved from Pakistan to Zurich

Zürich

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 and ensured that the Zurich branch has become a well respected international institution.

Habib Bank PLC has offices in Zurich (Switzerland), the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, the United Arab Emirates

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, Kenya

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, the Isle of Man

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, South Africa

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 and Canada

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and 177 branches worldwide.