Pakistan and ATMs

Dennis,

I have just switched US banks myself because Romania (where I am based) is a black listed country for TD Bank North’s Visa debit cards. I asked about what other countries were on the list and Pakistan and South Africa were the other two. I now have a card with the MasterCard symbol. . . so you might want to check with your bank.

http://www.lightstalkers.org/pakistan-8

http://www.citibank.com/pakistan/consumer/customerserv/atmloc.htm

Hope this helps

Star and Mastercard were harder for me to use when i was there a year ago. I ended up finding two banks total that i could access. Citibank and HSBC are always good. http://www.hsbc.com.pk/pk/launched/country/default.htm

good luck

Thanks for the help guys. I called my bank and after overcoming their shock “You’re going where?!” they confirmed that my card does indeed work in Pakistan.

There is also a site I found for the Plus network that confirms existance of a number of ATMs using their system in both Islamabad and Karachi.

I still think I’ll be doing a lot of praying the first time I stick my card in an ATM, but this all helps…

I was there 2 days ago and had no problem getting money with a Mastercard, at least at the Citibank ATM. It all depends where you’ll be in Pakistan, but in big cities, you sould have no pb.

In larger cities, I’ve had no issues. If you head into the remote areas, I would stuff the wallet. Kashmir, Jelhum Valley specifically, did not have any that I saw. In the NWFP there were plenty, once in a while they would be empty but there would be another not too far. Good luck. Its a great town.