Central Bank sells Rs10 billion of T-bills

Updated at: 1101 PST, Saturday, February 28, 2009
KARACHI: Pakistan's Central Bank sold 10 billion rupees ($125 million) of Treasury bills on Saturday under five-day repo contracts at 9.00 percent to mop up funds from the money market.

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