KOHAT, Oct 19: NWFP minister for Zakat and Ushr Mohammad Sultan Khan said the government wanted to rehabilitate the poor people and to enable them to live with honour.

He said the government had doubled the zakat amount this year to   benefit more people.

Speaking at a cheque distribution ceremony at the Kohat Development Authority hall on Friday, Omar Baksh Awan, the district chairman of the zakat committee, said the district government would distribute more than  Rs64 million among the poor, under the permanent rehabilitation programme for which a list of 867 deserving families had been sent to the provincial government.—Correspondent