PBM plans to establish more panagahs countrywide: MD

ISLAMABAD   -   Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) was planning to establish new panagahs (shelter homes) throughout the country besides the 19 panagahs already working under the umbrella of Ehsaas Programme. Talking to APP, Managing Director PBM Malik Zaheer Abbas said, “The expansion plan of this project was going to be executed on fast track.” He added that so far 2.5 million beneficiaries have been provided services in panagahs where 2.351 million people were served meals and shelter while 145,630 persons received breakfast. He informed that the programme was launched under the Prime Minister Imran Khan’s initiative to revive centuries old local tradition of kings to provide shelter and food to travellers free of charge.

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