Around 100,000 govt employees names omitted from BISP: Nishtar.

PESHAWAR -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Sania Nishtar on Monday said that around 100,000 government employees' names were omitted from the database of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), media reported on Monday.

Addressing a press conference here Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation aide to prime minister, Sania Nishtar said that the government has omitted the names of 820,165 unmerited people from the BISP and around 100,000 among them were government employees.

The special assistant said that the payments will be made by bio-metric system under the Ehsaas programme, to ensure transparency. 'Biometric ATMs have been introduced to facilitate beneficiary women of the programme,' Nishtar said.

'The prime minister will formally launch the programme on January 31,' she added.

Several top officials of provincial and federal governments were also enjoying benefits of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).

In a startling disclosure...