[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the foreign minister, has announced an immediate increase of 25% in the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) stipend amount. He also promised that the Sindh government will speed up the process of giving aid to the flood-affected small farmers.
According to him, the PPP’s politics are centred on delivering justice to the average person.
The concept for this revolutionary programme was presented by Benazir Bhutto in her manifesto, which took into account the poverty, inflation, and economic crisis in the nation, the foreign minister said while speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the registration of deserving women under the BISP through the National Database and Registration Authority on Saturday.
According to him, BISP was created to transform the lives of the nation’s weakest women.
According to Bilawal, the government’s bureaucracy, opposition politicians, and so-called intellectuals opposed the initiative when it was first introduced.
Before the BISP was implemented, critics used to claim that the populace was being reduced to begging.
“The same money obtained through the BISP can transform the fortunes of a poor person, a child, or a woman. The amount of Rs. 1,000 may not mean much to many people.”
According to the FM, President Asif Ali Zardari battled the entire system to implement the BISP during his presidency, and by having meetings every week in the President House, the poor women all over the nation received financial aid within a year.
The BISP is now the most transparent institution, he declared. The BISP’s transparency is valued by international organisations including the United Nations.
There are two types of political parties in the world, according to the PPP chairman.
“Although the second kind thinks that no matter how much the rich are made richer, their scope for providing work is still the same and limited, the first type claims that if the rich are made richer, they will provide employment to more people.”
He continued by observing that the majority of the wealthier guys were miser men.
According to Bilawal, the BISP not only managed a woman’s home but also several small businesses. Inflation, unemployment, and an economic catastrophe still exist in the nation, he declared.
“In these conditions, in light of the PPP ideology, the amount of BISP as well as the number of recipients should be expanded as it is a thorough tool to reduce poverty in the country,” the author writes.
The PPP chairman remarked that it was regrettable to bring up the fact that Imran Khan had previously claimed that he had not run for office to discover how much tomatoes and onions cost.
But since we are in government to help the common guy, we also need to look at the costs of tomatoes and onions.
He claimed that if there was to be a cut, it would come from the BISP’s funds.
According to Bilawal, the failure of the conspirators against this programme and the continuation of this revolutionary programme were due to the prayers of deserving ladies of the BISP.
Moreover, Bilawal was grateful for the German ambassador’s assistance with the BISP and flood victims.
The Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation, BISP Chairperson Shazia Atta Marri, and other speakers at the event included Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
