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Benazir Bhutto
Sep 17 2009, Karim Khan

President Asif Ali Zardari, on Tuesday (September 15, 2009), launched the landmark Waseela-e-Haq program to help the country’s poor out of their misery. The program, an offshoot of the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), will allow an interest-free..

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