PM committed to ensure that no one goes to bed hungry: Sania Nishtar.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar says the Prime Minister is personally committed to ensure that no one goes to bed hungry in Pakistan and Ehsaas is working hard to realize this vision.

She was speaking at an opening ceremony of the second Langar Khana at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in collaboration with Saylani Welfare Trust in Islamabad on Friday. This Langar will serve two meals a day to at least 1,000 persons including patients and their attendants at PIMS as per the vision of the Prime Minister Imran Khan. In the first phase, Ehsaas Saylani Langars will be opened in Peshawar, Swat, Multan, Lahore and Umer Kot in the next two months. Overall, in the public private partnership with Saylani Welfare International Trust (SWIT), Ehsaas will set up 112 Langars nationwide over a two-year period. The first prototype Langar was inaugurated by the PM on Oct 7, 2019 at Peshawar More in Islamabad.

SAPM on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar and SAPM on Health, Dr. Zafar Mirza, performed the groundbreaking of PIMS Langar. Also, present at the occasion were Advisor to Chairman SWIT, Muhammad Afzal Chamdia, Muhammad Ghazzal, Chief Operating Officer, SWIT and Executive Director PIMS, Dr. Ansir. Langars are part of PM's 'Mazdoor ka Ehsaas' initiative and are primarily meant to serve meals to the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the society, especially daily wage laborers. The Ehsaas Saylani Langar project has specifically been designed with the ethos to contribute substantively to SDG 1 and SDG 2 i.e. No poverty and Zero Hunger respectively.

'The Prime Minister is personally committed to ensuring that no one goes to bed hungry in Pakistan and Ehsaas is working hard to realize that vision', stated SAPM Dr. Nishtar. Elaborating further, she said, 'Under the Ehsaas framework, the Government is mainly extending logistic support to Langars through a strategic approach to collaboration with zero cost implications. The second way in which the government is playing its role is...