KHUZDAR: A large number of women receiving a monthly stipend from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) staged a sit-in at the National Highway on Friday against deduction of Rs900 by a mobile phone company which disbursed the amount to the relief recipients.

Carrying placards and banners inscribed with their demands and shouting slogans, they gathered at the main highway.

The representative of the protesting women, Zahida Mengal, told journalists that earlier the women in Khuzdar were receiving their stipend of BISP from the post office which deducted an amount of Rs200 as a delivery charge.

She said that in the current month, the arrangement of distribution of amount to the deserving women was handed over to a mobile company which was deducting Rs900 from each woman.

They demanded that the delivery of BISP stipend be handed back to post offices.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2017