Islamabad, Apr 8, (UNI) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Wednesday that the government will begin distributing relief money from tomorrow among people belonging to the lower-income groups who have been the hardest hit by financial crisis caused by the the ongoing lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
PM Khan said that a sum of Rs12,000 will be distributed among 12 million families from 17,000 different points insisting that the programme was not politically motivated, as had been suggested in some quarters, since the data for it had been collected digitally.
Dr Sania Nishtar, the head of the Ehsaas Programme, told the media that the National Identity Card numbers being sent to the government through text messages on 8171, had passed through several stages so that the government can identify the genuine beneficiaries.