KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while addressing the inauguration ceremony of dynamic registration of deserving women under BISP through NADRA, has announced immediate increase of 25 percent in the stipend amount of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).
Speaking at the ceremony, Bilawal said the provision of relief money by the Government of Sindh to the flood-affected small farmers will also be accelerated. He said the politics of PPP is based on bringing justice to the common man.
Bilawal said the concept of this revolutionary programme was given by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in her manifesto looking at the poverty, inflation and economic crisis in the country.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said when this programme was being launched, the country’s bureaucracy, opposition politicians and so-called intellectuals were against it. “Before the start of the BISP, our opponents used to say that the people were being made beggars as Rs1,000 may not mean much to many people, but the same Rs1,000 received under the BISP can change the fortunes of a poor person, a child or a mother,” he said.
The foreign minister said that during his presidency, President Asif Ali Zardari fought against the entire system to implement the BISP and by holding meetings every week in the President’s House, poor women across the country were given assistance within a year. “We have made the BISP the most transparent institution. International organisations including the United Nations appreciate the BISP and its transparency.”
