ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has announced to change theBenazir Income Support Programme (BISP) title.
The prime minister has made the decision on the Grand Democratic Alliance(GDA) demand and assured the GDA regarding the recommendation during hisvisit to Ghotki, following which former Sindh chief minister Arbab GhulamRahim has expressed his gratitude to the PM.
During the meeting, Prime Minister Imran Khan was quoted as suggesting thatthe name of BISP, the country’s largest social safety net programme of itskind, would be amended.
Changing the name of the BISP has increased political rift between theruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on the other.
PPP’s former premier Yousaf Raza Gillani initiated the BISP programme inthe year 2008 on the recommendation of former president Asif Ali Zardarifor paying tribute to the former prime minister and PPP’s leader BenazirBhutto, who was assassinated in 2007.
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PPP leadership has Slammed PM Imran’s suggestion and said that ShaheedBenazir Bhutto made sacrifices not just for the party but for the entirecountry.
In a tweet, Adviser to Sindh chief minister, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, saidthe BISP cannot be renamed unless the law is changed. “Kaptaan ur the PMnot the King plz try to understand law before making commitments.”