PM urged to allow Ehsas programme payments to passport holders also

PM urged to allow Ehsas programme payments to passport holders citizens of Pakistan also.

Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) Pakistan spokesman Allama Maqsood Ali Domki has made this appeal to the Prime Minister Imran Khan.

He called for amending eligibility criterion for Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme/Ehsaas Kafalat Programme, immediately.

PM urged to allow

He said that financially poor people also possess passports; hence, passport cannot prove affluence of any citizen or otherwise.

Allama Domki said that even financially poor citizens of Pakistan get passports for the purpose of pilgrimages or jobs abroad. He said they did not get passports for other sorts of tourism.

Earlier, Allama Syed Ahmed Iqbal Rizvi and Allama Syed Baqir Abbas Zaidi also made similar demand.

They drew government attention to the fact that pension also don’t prove affluence of any citizen because widows or senior citizens hardly make both ends meets solely on pensionary amount.

While citing these reasons, MWM leaders opposed the government policy for disqualifying the passport holders or their families and pensioners or their heirs for Ehsaas programme.

Moreover, they said post-Coronavirus lockdown and restrictions had affected the low-income people across the country and they need immediate relief to make both ends meet.

They also urged the government to amend the criterion by not disqualifying passport holders, their families and pensioners/heirs for Ehsas Emergency Cash Program.

Specially, they said, rural population need this help more urgently.

Meanwhile, they alerted that majority of needy/deserving people would not benefit from this scheme due to unfair eligibility criterion.