PM Imran launches health card scheme in Bahawalpur

Imran says his next visit to region will be to inaugurate South Punjab Secretariat


News Desk February 01, 2022
PM Imran addressing an event on Criminal Law and Justice Reforms on January 27, 2022. Photo: Facebook/ImranKhanOfficial

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday launched the Naya Pakistan National Health Card scheme in Bahawalpur.

According to APP, about 10.5 million people from the districts of Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar in the Bahawalpur Division were included in the programme, raising the number of people and households in the programme in Punjab by 63 per cent.

Addressing the ceremony on the occasion, the prime minister said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) struggle was to ensure the supremacy of the rule of law and making Pakistan a welfare state. The prime minister said the government has launched the Ehsaas project, Kamyab Jawan Programme, and the Sehat card to turn the country into a welfare state.

Poor countries across the world could not develop because their rulers plundered the national resources, the premier said, adding that the nation had to stand up against these "robbers" to end corruption.

He also referred to a plea filed by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) against the lifetime disqualification under Article 62(1)(f). According to the PM, such a plea justified "theft" by the powerful while the poor were languishing in prison cells on similar charges.

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Imran said the Sharif family has properties worth billions in the most expensive city of Europe. "When Nawaz was asked about the properties owned by his children, he said didn't know how his children acquired these properties and when the children were asked, they said they 'weren't citizens of Pakistan'".

Referring to the region, the premier said the South Punjab Secretariat will be inaugurated during his next visit to the region, adding that southern Punjab has been ignored by the government for a long time.

The National Health Card has already been distributed among people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Islamabad, District Tharparkar, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

COMMENTS (3)

Bukhtawar shakoor | 2 years ago | Reply Weldon PM Imran Khan and our government .I realized that it is the first government which not only makes the documentary or law on any progressing projects but also trying to impelimentation on this .It is the government which can undo every faults in our system. I appreciate it with heart and soul .we should help our government in this connection because it s not only the duty of our government but also the duty of our every citizens so we should help our government in every steps. InshAllah if our government keep it up then we will be in list of developed countries very soon like china and USA InshAllah Ameensumameen
M.Akbar Sardar | 2 years ago | Reply Who are your advisers you dont know talking to people and addressing the Audience with sunglasses is very roud and I ll mannerd. Please you look stuped.
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