ISLAMABAD
\nPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday launched Rs20 billion Ramazan package for 4 million deserving families across the country, benefitting about 20 million people.
\nAddressing the launching ceremony, the prime minister said that a total of 4 million deserving families comprising about two crore people would benefit from this package which would be distributed in the first ten days of the holy month.
\nEach family through digital wallets would get Rs5,000, he said, expressing his satisfaction that the price hike had been reduced this year when compared with the previous figures during the holy month of Ramazan.
\n\u201cThis year, an amount of Rs20 billion has been allocated for the purpose. The relief amount last year was Rs7 billion,\u201d he added. The prime minister also lauded all the relevant authorities and institutions including ministries, State Bank of Pakistan, NADRA, BISP and tech companies who worked day and night to devise a digital mechanism.
\nThe federal government\u2019s initiative would benefit all parts of the country through a well-devised digital system, he added.
\nHe also expressed his gratitude to the foreign partners for their partnership and support in this noble cause and appreciated their commitment and valuable contributions.
\nThe prime minister said that billions of rupees of the poor nation had been stuck up in litigation for years and expressed the resolve of the government to get expeditious decisions over Rs500 billion cases pending for adjudication in various courts.
\nHe said corruption was being dealt with iron hands. During their previous interim government\u2019s tenure, the banks had made windfall profits over fluctuation of dollar rates and got stay orders from the court when the government introduced a legislation in this regard. Referring to a decision of the recent Sindh High Court, he said Rs23 billion were recovered from the disposal of a stay case.
\nThe prime minister termed the corruption in the Utility Stores Corporation as \u2018worst one\u2019 and said that it was being privatized, ending public agonies with a very proactive digital system like the one just launched.
\nHe also reiterated to close down other government\u2019s entities running into losses.
\nThe prime minister expressed his deep grief over a terrorist attack on Maulana Hamid ul Haq at Madrassa Haqqania in which Maulana Haq had embraced martyrdom.
\nHe said that Madrassa Haqqania was a renowned center of Islamic studies, and the yesterday\u2019s terrorist incident was heart-wrenching, and highly condemnable.
\nThe Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government would immediately bring the perpetrators to book, he said, adding in the year 2018, terrorism was eliminated from the country, and in that fight about 80,000 Pakistanis had laid down their lives, including security forces officers and jawans and all segments of society. Unfortunately, he said the specter raised its head in the recent times and everyone knew the reasons.
\nWith the unmatched sacrifices of the security forces and nation\u2019s support, they would eliminate terrorism forever and would not rest till its complete eradication, he added.
\nMinister for Industries and Production Rana Tanveer Hussain, in his remarks, said the programme was sanctioned in twenty days in which all the relevant authorities played a significant part, enabling them to launch the initiative in the holy month.
\nHe said foolproof mechanism would ensure swift transfer of amount to 4 million deserving families all over the country. Moreover, a total of 600 stalls were being set up at the tehsil level to provide sugar at subsidized price of Rs130 kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday launched Rs20 billion Ramazan package for 4 million deserving families across the country, benefitting about 20 million people. Addressing the launching ceremony, the prime minister said that a total of 4 million deserving families comprising about two crore people would benefit from this package which would be distributed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-464541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n