FIA launches inquiry into BISP scam.

ISLAMABAD -- The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday has launched inquiry against government officials who were involved financial irregularities in Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), media reported.

The investigation into the scam was ordered by Prime Minister Imran Khan. The report of officers who got benefit from the BISP will be presented before him.

According to sources within the FIA, as many as 3,000 government officers got benefits from the BISP.

Earlier on January 18, services of four government officers had been terminated over illegally taking tri-monthly handouts of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).

In first punitive action against the officials involved in the BISP scam, the government had notified termination of four officers of Grade-17, who had been getting the money meant for poor segment of the society after getting registered their wives in the list of the BISP beneficiaries.

The government had also recovered Rs. 4,40,196 rupees, the...