Pakistan unleashes crackdown on 'hawala' shadow banking

Cash-strapped government chases illegal transfers to boost legal remittances

ADNAN AAMIR

ISLAMABAD -- Traders running illicit money transfers once operated openly in the crowded Chowk Yadgar district of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar. But the business of hawala has largely gone underground these days as the government cracks down on the shadow banking system.

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