PML-N leader wants to purge BISP of undeserving beneficiaries

There have been complaints that more than two and in some cases five to six members of a single family have been made the beneficiaries of the programme only because of their links in the government departments and among the officials concerned. In an appeal made to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the PML-N Chitral chapter general secretary, Sifat Zareen, on Thursday said over 20 per cent of the people of Chitral deserved to get the assistance under the BISP but currently only five per cent were registered and over 50 per cent of them were non-deserving. He called upon the prime minister and the chairperson of the BISP, Marvi Memon, to order the constitution of a committee in Chitral with the mandate to investigate and purge all the non-desrving people from the programme and include the left-over desrving persons in it. He was of the view that such a step was very necessary to bring transparency to the programme and provide relief to the genuine deserving people.–Bashir Hussain Azad ]]>