PPP implementing strategy to weed out poverty

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is implementing a comprehensive strategy to weed out poverty on permanent basis and forms of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) would be distributed through party organisation during second phase of this program.
Makhdoom Shahab-Ud-Din Federal Minister for Planning and Development said this while addressing an open court in Circuit House here Sunday. He said that PPP being a democratic party is strengthening its links with masses through its workers.
He termed workers as real strength of PPP and said that their problems would be resolved on top priority basis. He said that PPP could not concentrate on its workers immediately after coming into power due to some national and internal obligations. However, now on the special directives of President Asif Ali Zardari Co-chairman PPP, ministers are holding open courts to further strengthen their links with workers and resolve peoples' problems at the earliest. Explaining the policy to control poverty, he said that BISP has been launched and to make it transparent, its forms have been distributed through elected MNAs.
"This step has restored our credibility at the international level", he said and added that it was in this context the international donor agencies including IMF (International Monetary Fund), World Bank and ADB (Asian Development Bank) are giving liberal funding to our development programs.
He further said that PPP high command was fully aware of the problems of its workers and steps are being taken to accommodate them within the available resources and circumstance. He urged upon the workers to strengthen their links with masses and try to resolve their problems to facilitate them.
Earlier, Raja Riaz Ahmad Senior Punjab Minister said that recruitment in Punjab has been banned and workers are distressed due to the non-availability of jobs. He said that federal government should take necessary measures to provide jobs to PPP workers on top priority basis. Rana Khawar, a youth activist congratulated Asif Ali Zardari on the release of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan and said that it indicated that fruits of democracy are now trickling down. He also demanded steps to encourage and reorganise PPP workers belonging to constituencies where PPP had lost.