SHERGARH - Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Okara district General Secretary Syed Ashiq Hussain Kirmani distributed Zakat cheques among the deserving people at his residence here the other day.The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz leader distributed Zakat cheques of worth Rs1,500 each among the poor ...

LAHORE – Zakat and Ushr Department has released Rs 52.31 million marriage grant for the deserving families of the province. The distribution process of the said amount has also been started.  Provincial Minister for Zakat & Ushr Malik Nadeem Kamran disclosed this while presiding over ...

LAHORE (APP) - Provincial Zakat Council Punjab (PZCP) has approved the first six-month budget for 2011-12 over Rs 870 million for educational scholarships, health, marriage grant, technical education and leprosy patients. This was decided in a meeting of Provincial Zakat Council Punjab held under ...

The Punjab and federal governments have locked horn over a new formula for allocation of Zakat funds to the provinces, a private TV reported on Thursday. The Federal government has formed a new formula for dividing Zakat funds among the provinces but the Punjab government has rejected this new ...

LAHORE - On special directives from the Makro Habib Pakistan Limited Managing Director, Jamal Mustafa Siddiqui, Makro Management is presenting three different types of Zakat Hampers in different denomination for the convenience of its valued customers in facilitating them towards fulfilling their ...

Although the Zakat system had been introduced some three decades ago and tens of billions have been distributed to deserving people since then, no government, federal or provincial, has taken any step for their permanent rehabilitation or bringing an end to their dependence. The amount of money ...

LAHORE-Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab, Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa has directed the officials of Zakat & Ushr as well as Law Departments to finalize the proposed draft of amendments in the existing Zakat & Ushr Laws at the earliest. He stated this while presiding over the meeting of ...

The government during the past six years recovered Rs12.51 billion on account of Zakat, while its recovery on the annual basis is seen declining. State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said that the government during 2004-2009 deducted Zakat at 2 percent of the bank accounts balances besides on the profits ...

KARACHI - With Eidul Fitr only 12 days away, the poor and destitute receiving monthly Guzara Allowance and Eid Package under Zakat scheme every year in Ramazan since 1980, are still waiting for relief. The delay in the formation of Zakat committees is hampering the distribution of money among ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Central Zakat Council has approved the Zakat budget havinng size of more than Rs 7.37 billion for various zakat programmes for the financial year 2008-09.   The main programmes against which allocation has been approved are Rs 2.23 billion for Guzara Allowance, Rs 2.19 ...