BISP: Registration of 2.5m women underway

Women were eligible but were not given any assistance as they did not have identity cards.

DERA GHAZI KHAN: National Database Registration Authority is registering 2.5 million women in south Punjab districts for Benazir Income Support Programme, NADRA south Punjab in-charge Col (retd) Safdar said on Sunday.

He said these women were eligible but were not given any assistance  because they did not have identity cards.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 17^th, 2012.