A spokesman of the Bilawal House has said that the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) was the 'largest and unique social protection programme' of the former PPP democratic government providing direct financial assistance to 22 percent vulnerable population of the country consisting 7 million families. This programme is making difference between starvation and food security for poorest of the poor, he added.
He said that the programme titled as "Benazir Income Support Programme Act" was unanimously passed by the Parliament. He said that the PPP government initiated the programme in 2008 to translate the vision of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto focused to the welfare of those whose subsistence was at stake due to acute poverty. He said that the efficiency and the reach of the programme to such a large chunk of country's population had been appreciated by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and their evaluation mattered by any standard. He further said that even the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon while commenting on the programme urged the other developing countries to replicate it because of its transparency, efficacy and usefulness.