Bilawal shows anger on removal of poor women from BISP beneficiery list.

Islamabad -- Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly criticized Imran Khan's government for the removal of 820,165 women beneficieries from the list of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and termed it an attack on the economic empowerment of poverty-ridden women.

In a statement, the PPP Chairman said that the PTI government was doling out government benefits only to the moneyed class and seems more interested in unleashing poverty amd unemployment in the country.

'The PTI government has taken total U-Turns on its pre-election promises of providing 10 million jobs and 5 million houses. Instead, it is overseeing mass unemployment, mass homelessness in the name of 'anti-encroachment', and multiplying poverty through its ruthless anti-poor policies,' he added.

Bilawal said that the federal cabinet was guilty of this economic onslaught on the poor. Their silence as people's homes are destroyed, as millions lose their...

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