RAWALPINDI, March 10: Pakistan Baitul Mal has released an instalment of Rs63 million for the beneficiaries of its Food Support Programme (FSP) in Islamabad, Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir.

A spokesman for the Baitul Maal told Dawn that there were about 63,000 beneficiaries including old, poor, orphans and special persons in those areas who would benefit from the first instalment of the year 2003.

According to the Pakistan Baitul Maal (Islamabad region) deputy director, Qazi Zafar Iqbal, there were 2,910 beneficiaries of the programme in his jurisdiction among whom Rs1,000 each would be distributed.

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