Complaints to banking ombudsman rise 135pc in Q1 Business April 17, 2021 KARACHI: The number of complaints against banks lodged with the banking mohtasib Pakistan rose 135 percent in the first quarter of 2021, a statement said on Friday. The complaints were against alleged frauds, forgeries and other irregularities. Banking Ombudsman Muhammad Kamran Shehzad has urged the general public not to disclose their personal and financial credentials to any person in order to protect themselves from any fraud, forgeries etc. “Almost 11,732 complaints were received by the Banking Mohtasib Secretariat from 1st January to 31st March, 2021 as against 4,994 complaints received in the same period of last year depicting an increase of 135 percent,” said the statement.