KARACHI, Aug 10: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz handed over ownership documents of some of the 544 apartment built under an apartment scheme undertaken by the Pakistan Housing Authority in Gulistan-i-Jauhar to their respective allottees at a ceremony held at the Governor’s House on Friday.

Addressing the ceremony, he said the government was striving to provide shelter and other basic facilities to citizens.

The scheme was one of the several housing projects initiated by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif under the title of “Apna Ghar”. About 10,000 residential plots are to be developed in Taiser Town and another 36,000 are being planned to be built in Malir.

Mr Aziz said that the projects undertaken by the provincial and local governments for infrastructural development would further help meet people’s requirements.

Speaking on the occasion, Federal Minister for Housing Babar Ghauri announced two bonuses for the PHA employees.

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, federal ministers Ameer Muqam and Tariq Azeem, Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on Home Wasim Akhtar, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal, MQM legislators and a large number of government officials attended the ceremony.