TOBA TEK SINGH: The Jhang Kotwali police registered a fraud case on Monday against a retailer for allegedly defrauding women beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).
Complainant BISP Jhang district deputy director Zaheer Abbas said in his First Information Report that accused Muhammad Yaseen, who owned his retail agency office on Bhakkar Road, deducted Rs1,000 from the payment of every woman visitor. The police were conducting raids to arrest the accused, who is on the run after defrauding the BIPS beneficiaries.
The Benazir Income Support Programme
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a federal unconditional cash transfer poverty reduction program in Pakistan that was launched in July 2008. The Benazir Income Support Programme was established by Yousaf Raza Gillani. The program’s name is a tribute to the former prime minister and wife of former president Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007. BISP is Pakistan’s most extensive aid program and the government’s third-largest budgetary allocation. BISP spending accounts for 0.3% of Pakistan’s GDP.
