ISLAMABAD - PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has said the PPP would sweep the upcoming general elections with the support of the people of Pakistan and form the next government once again to develop the country in accordance with the vision of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir ...

A bomb went off outside the office of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Chaman on Sunday, causing partial damage to its building. However, no loss of life was reported.The bomb was attached with a bicycle, parked outside the BISP office.The blast damaged the wall and roof of the building. ...

ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), Farzana Raja has said that BISP is providing a safety net to the bottom 25pc population of Pakistan as cushion against the rising prices if food and fuel. She said that this initiative is aiming to enable poor ...

ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has directed chairperson BISP to provide assistance to flood-affected people of Balochistan on priority basis. The Prime Minister gave the direction when BISP Chairperson Farzana Raja called on him at the Prime Minister’s House on Monday. She told ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a flagship programme for reducing poverty and empowering women. The President made these remarks while addressing the Waseela-e-Haq draws and cheques distribution ceremony under the Benazir Income ...

KARACHI - The seventh batch of 86 jobless youths completed training under ‘Waseela-e-Haq’ Sindh scheme of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) here on Monday.The interest free loan to jobless youth for initiating their own business under Benazir Income Support Programme would not ...

SADIQABAD - A skirmish took place among the Benzir Income Support Progrmme the beneficiaries and with the personnel at a Union Council office in a bid to get their Smart Cards in Labour Colony, Gulshn-e-Usman, Rahim Yar Khan. In order get their respective cards by exceeding one another, the women ...

ISLAMABAD –BISP and the State Life Insurance Corporation Pakistan (SLIC) have inked an agreement for three years from 2012 to 2015 to ensure 4.1 million breadwinners of BISP’s beneficiary families. Besides Chairperson BISP, Madame Farzana Raja and Chairman SLIC, Mr. Shahid Siddiqi, ...

ISLAMABAD – Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Farzana Raja has said that besides various interventions aiming at poverty reduction, the measures taken by BISP are contributing significantly in women socio-economic empowerment in the country. She said this while talking ...

28 centres with 3000 orphans have been raised by Mr. Zamard Khan of Bait-ul-Mal by the PPP, on the quiet. The nation is unaware of such a huge noble adventure. It ought to have been publicized, widely. According to the Nation of 14 March, 2012, it is a project which took off from seeking donation ...

ISLAMABAD – Poverty is an evil without boundaries and a trans-national issue. Reduction in poverty can end extremist trends in the society which can lead towards a more peaceful world. Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has served people throughout Pakistan without any discrimination and ...

ABU DHABT - Various ministries and organisations, working in the social sector, on behalf of United Arab Emirates (UAE) government, have shown their agreement to take various measures aiming to enhance support base for Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). This agreement came during different ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday directed BISP to distribute cash grants among the poor through Benazir Smart Cards (BSC) across the country, instead of post offices to avoid delays and other complaints in the present delivery mechanism. This, he said during a briefing on BISP in ...

NANKANA Sahib - The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) will carry out an impartial survey to assess the needy and deserving people and will deliver the financial assistants to them in a transparent way, said BISP Director General Shahid Aslam. Addressing the inauguration of the BISP survey ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - One million registered beneficiaries of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) who have lost their bread earners are being given compensation of Rs 100,000 under Life Insurance scheme. Talking to APP, Chairperson BISP, Farzana Raja said the programme is expediting its efforts for ...

ISLAMABAD - Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has made significant impact with regard to easing poverty in Pakistan and there is a critical need for sustainable funding strategy and implementation for long-term period. BISP serves to the global community, and it is central to security and ...

LAHORE-Taking notice of the media reports regarding rowdy behaviour of PPP activists during proceedings of a workshop organised by BISPs zonal office on Monday to brief them about the significance of the poverty survey, PPPs top leadership has ordered inquiry into the incident which brought a bad ...

LAHORE - The PPP jialaas on Monday disrupted proceedings of a workshop organised by zonal office of Benazir Income Support Progarmme (BISP) at Johar Town to apprise them about the importance of poverty survey being carried out in the City under the BISP to collect data about the poor. They raised ...

Former Federal Minister and PPP MPA Anwar Saifullah Khan has called upon the government to utilise Pakistan Baitul Maal and Benazir Income Support Programme funds for the relief and rehabilitation of flood victims in the country. Speaking at a public meeting in Naurang the other day, he said that ...

KARACHI (Online) - President Asif Zardari on Friday said that assistance would be taken from Google Earth to identify 'goths and villages to ensure fair distribution of amount under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) among the deserving people. Addressing to 11th draw of 'Wasila-Haq ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Around 127,000 families will soon get financial assistance of Rs 3,000 for the last three months under Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). Farzana Raja, Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme told APP that Pakistan Post would make money orders from the back date of ...

ISLAMABAD - A special meeting of Central Development Working Party (CDWP), said to be in-camera, on Monday considered three development projects with estimated cost of Rs 173 billion and forwarded its recommendations for approval to the Executive Committee of National Economic Council ...