Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Tuesday directed the speedy expansion of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) with introduction of new technologies to provide financial benefits to vulnerable sections in all parts of the country. Addressing a ceremony organised by BISP to hand over life insurance certificates and cheques to women and people affected by bomb blasts, he described the BISP as a real reflection of the dreams of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. He said BISP was an important initiative by the government while the World Bank had also accepted its credibility as it reached four million families within a period of three years only. He assured the terrorism-affected families of supporting them in difficult times and said the government was aiming at bringing the backward areas at par with the developed regions of the country by providing them with basic amenities of life and bringing them into the national mainstream.
