Transfer of money from Pak to UK

Yes I learnt that the hard way during my last trip to pakistan. We had some money in the bank account that my husband has there and needed to withdraw it. Long story short, the bank manager basically refused to let us withdraw the money asking us to let the money stay in the account until his branch audit or some review had taken place - we argued that no, we needed the money urgently. The bank manager then took it upon himself to visit my bro-in-law and asked him to talk my husband into not withdrawing the money just yet. The worse part was that the transaction was a confidential matter, we hadn’t told anyone else in the family since it was none of their business and the manager just ‘outed’ us. Needless to say, my husband closed his account the following morning :eek: