Shazia Marri inaugurates Benazir Nashonuma Centre in Karachi

• Benazir Nashonuma Centre has been established in Karachi
• Minister for Poverty Alleviation Shazia Marri inaugurated the centre
• She said the federal government has not ignored any province

KARACHI: Minister for Poverty Alleviation Shazia Marri inaugurated Benazir Nashonuma Centre in Karachi.

The centre has been set up under Benazir Income Support Programme office at Pir Ilahi Bux Colony.

Speaking to media on the occasion, she said under the programme, healthy food will be provided to mother and child to address the issue of stunted growth of the children.

Shazia Marri said at present, this facility is available in 139 districts which will be further expanded across the country.

The federal minister said the federal government has not ignored any province. She said they are contacting every provincial government and Sindh government was cooperating with them.

She said the Sindh government also cooperated when Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had announced Rs25,000 each under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) for deserving families.

She said that under the BISP program, 1.5 million beneficiaries would be targeted. The minister said that pregnant women, lactating females, and females, whose children were aged 6 to 23 months would be covered under this initiative.

While condemning allegation of PTI chief Imran Khan against former president Asif Ali Zardari, she said that “Imran Ahmed Niazi has gone insane as his allegation and statements are not even worth answering”.

The minister said that Zardari had never uttered a single word against his opponents, adding that “Imran Ahmed Niazi is a narcissist”.

She blamed that “Imran Niazi is trying to spread anarchy in the country”. The minister said that the institutions had announced they would remain apolitical.

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