Bilawal defends Sindh Housing scheme, proposes int...

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• One million homes completed for flood victims Defending the housing initiative Bilawal described it as one of the world’s largest housing programmes and said the Sindh government had completed one million homes for families affected by devastating floods.
• Bilawal said he had promised affected women that the government would help them rebuild their lives by providing permanent homes.
• Comparing reconstruction efforts in Sindh and Balochistan he said the federal government had constructed around 30,000 houses in Balochistan over three years against the one million homes he said had been completed in Sindh.

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KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has rejected allegations of corruption in the Sindh People’s Housing Scheme accusing political opponents of attempting to discredit the provincial government through what he described as a smear campaign.

Speaking in Karachi on Tuesday Bilawal challenged the critics to seek an independent international audit of the project saying Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah should approach international organisations to examine its performance and finances.

He expressed confidence that an audit would establish the transparency of the initiative insisting that no corruption had taken place. He also urged political opponents to focus on the government’s public welfare work instead of repeatedly targeting the province.