PM orders payment from BISP during Ramazan
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif instructed the relevant officials on Thursday to ensure immediate distribution of funds among the deserving people registered under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in the holy month of Ramazan. Charing a high-level review meeting on the Prime Minister’s Ramazan Relief Package and the BISP, Shehbaz directed the officials to run a nationwide awareness campaign so that the this package could reach more and more eligible people. The meeting, attended by Senator Ishaq Dar, Ahad Cheema, Shaza Fatima, Rumina Khurshid and relevant senior officials, was informed that the quarterly payment from the BISP had been increased to Rs10,500. Read also: Ramazan relief data found wanting Shehbaz instructed the officials to ensure payment to the deserving people in the holy month of Ramazan. He specifically ordered that the recipient families from Balochistan must be paid an additional amount of Rs2,000 each. The meeting was also informed that more than 39.6 m...