JI Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has lambasted the government for its meagre financial assistance provided to lower-income people, saying that Rs3,000 are not enough for a family to buy basic supplies that would last a month.

He also suggested that the government does away with interest rate so that people would borrow loans from banks.

"You cannot build the State of Madina by broadcasting the Ertugrul show," he said.

Ertugrul is a Turkish serial based on stories of the Muslim Oghuz Turks, fighting invading Mongols, Christian Byzantines and the fanatic Knights Templar Crusaders in Anatolia (now modern-day Turkey) of the 12th century.

A dubbed version of the show is currently being aired on Pakistan Television Network on the prime minister's behest.