'Koi Bhooka Na Soye' : Imran opens meals-on-wheels drive.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said the government, in order to protect the poor people from inflation and price-hike, will initiate a revolutionary programme of providing direct subsidy to 30 million families - around half of the country's population from June.

The prime minister on Wednesday launched the 'Koi Bhooka Na Soye' programme, under which the poor and labour classes would be provided free meal boxes twice a day through mobile trucks at various points of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

The prime minister said through the direct subsidy programme, to be carried out under the umbrella of Ehsaas, money would be directly credited to the accounts of poor people enabling them to buy basic food items like wheat flour, sugar, ghee, pulses etc. The government, he...