Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz speaks to the media on Wednesday.—DawnNewsTV
Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz speaks to the media on Wednesday.—DawnNewsTV

Newly elected Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has announced six million Ramazan ‘Nigheban’ relief packages for the province, which will benefit approximately 35m people.

While speaking at a press conference in Lahore, she said an exercise of this magnitude has never been done before, and praised her team for executing the campaign within a matter of days.

She said that her workers carried out a door-to-door campaign to collect data on the families, adding that packaging and deliveries of the packages are already underway through a pilot programme.

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