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Punjab govt will use relief cards for flood victims instead of aiding them through BISP: Azma Bokhari
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The Dawn News
Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari said on Tuesday that the provincial government would use issue relief cards to the flood victims on their personal names using its own resources instead of using the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) to assist them.
Addressing a press conference at the Directorate General Public Relations, the provincial minister emphasised that disaster relief should not be politicised.
“The relief cards will ensure that help reaches the right people without making them suffer further.
“Should we take advice from those who have turned Sindh into archaeological ruins?” she added, taking a jibe at the Sindh government.
The provincial minister criticised those who she claimed were using the crisis to “advance their political agendas”.
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