A petition has been filed in Lahore High Court challenging probable change of the name of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), ARY News reported on Tuesday
LAHORE (Pakistan Point News / NNI - 02nd April, 2019) A petition has been filed in Lahore High Court challenging probable change of the name of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), ARY news reported on Tuesday.The petition said that the BISP was launched in year 2010 after proper legislation of the programme. The former government made changes in the BISP due to political reasons, the petition said.The incumbent government, intends to change the name of the income support programme, the petitioner said.
The petitioner pleaded to the court to declare the changes made in the programme during the tenure of the previous government as void.The petitioner also sought the court order to forbid the government from changing the name of the BISP, a poverty alleviation programme named after slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.A controversy was generated recently when Prime Minister Imran Khan and some leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf hinted to change the name of BISP what they alleged the PPP was misusing the poverty alleviation project for political benefit.Chairperson BISP Dr Sania Nishtar later clarified that BISP is the name of an Act and an institution and there is no formal discussion on the name change of the programme."No amendment has been placed before the parliament to change its name and there has been no formal discussion on the subject," she said. NNI
