Foundation of welfare state laid: PM Imran

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched the Ehsaas Kafaalat Programme under which seven million poverty-stricken women across the country would get a monthly stipend of Rs2,000 each through a foolproof and biometric-enabled cash disbursal mechanism.

“The foundation of a welfare state is being laid here. We have now started moving towards a welfare state. Soon, it will turn into the Pakistan of Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal,” Prime Minister Imran said while addressing the launching ceremony of the programme.

The ceremony marked the distribution of Kafaalat cards among the poorest women who sat beside the prime minister at the venue as per his own desire and what the event moderator Senator Faisal Javed said were the only VVIPs of the event.

Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar, SAPM on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, other cabinet members, parliamentarians, diplomats and people from cross sections of the society attended the event.