Selection of Ehsaas beneficiaries to be strictly apolitical, rule-based: Dr. Nishtar

ISLAMABAD, Jan 24 (APP):Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Dr. Sania Nishtar Friday clarified that Member Provincial Assembly (MPs) were not being given powers to enroll beneficiaries in the Ehsaas’s Kifalat programme.

Taking to twitter in response to a news item published in some section of a newspaper titled “PTI MPs to suggest beneficiaries for Ehsaas”, Dr. Sania Nishtar said Prime Minister Imran Khan had given no such instructions.

Dr. Sania Nishtar said selection of beneficiaries in all Ehsaas programmes would be strictly apolitical and rule-based.