Govt putting in full efforts to change Pakistan's fate PM.

RAWALPINDI -- Prime Minister Shehbaz SharAif said Monday that dedicated counters were being established for the needy people, not regisAtered with Benazir Income SupAport Programme (BISP), to proAvide free flour bags to them at the distribution centres under Ramazan Package.

"A huge number of people who are not registered with BISP, deAserve free flour bags as they are also living below the poverAty line," he said while talking to media during his visit to a free wheat flour distribution centre.

He said National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) and Punjab Information TechAnology Board took up the chalAlenge to include non-BISP peoAple by proposing a solution to this issue and developing a sysAtem which would be fully operaAtional by today (Monday).

Under this system, he said the non-BISP deserving peoAple would be eligible to get free flour from the separate counters after registering their names in the system. The prime minister said from tomorrow (Tuesday), the people who have not yet reAceived any flour bag, would be provided all three bags at a time so that they would not have to travel again for the purpose.

He said this was the first time in the country's history that free flour was being provided to deAserving people, therefore the adAministration had to face a big challenge in the beginning but the process was getting streamAlined. He appreciated the Punjab government and RawalpinAdi administration who were working day and night to make the distribution proAcess smooth and uninterruptAed. 'Their passion to serve the poor during fasting is...

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