DLP Report
\nPESHAWAR
\nAdvisor to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Finance Muzzammil Aslam, reacting to the distribution of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) funds, has said that Punjab is the province with the highest number of poor and deserving people in Pakistan.
\nThe evidence, he said, was that 5.1 million women in Punjab benefit from the Benazir Income Support Programme.
\nThe Finance Adviser said that Sindh comes second, where 2.6 million women receive BISP payments. He added that 2.2 million women in KP and 485,000 women in Balochistan benefit from BISP funds, whereas 21,000 women in Islamabad receive funds from the programme.
\nThe KP Finance Adviser said the question is: if Punjab is truly such a prosperous province, then why are there 5.1 million poor families? Muzzammil Aslam said that KP\u2019s situation was understandable because for the past 20 years it has been affected by military operations and terrorism. He further noted that Punjab receives 52 percent of the resources under the NFC Award, yet such a high level of poverty remains a major question mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DLP Report PESHAWAR Advisor to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Finance Muzzammil Aslam, reacting to the distribution of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) funds, has said that Punjab is the province with the highest number of poor and deserving people in Pakistan. The evidence, he said, was that 5.1 million women in Punjab benefit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-519440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n