Pakistan: Punjab Announces 10,000 More Free Electric Bikes for Students
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The Punjab government has decided to distribute 10,000 free electric bikes to deserving male and female students across the province.
The decision was made during a meeting of the sub-committee of the Punjab Zakat and Ushr Council. Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Punjab on Zakat and Ushr, Rashid Iqbal Nasrullah, chaired the meeting.
The meeting was attended by Senator Dr. Ghaus Muhammad Khan Niazi, MPA Malik Iftikhar Ahmed, Parliamentary Secretary for Zakat and Ushr Zubair Ahmed, other provincial assembly members, Administrator Zakat and Ushr Punjab, and senior departmental officials.
It was unanimously decided during the meeting that free electric bikes would be provided to Zakat-eligible individuals. Rashid Iqbal Nasrullah said that 2,000 bikes would be distributed in the first phase.
He added that the e-bike scheme is being launched on the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz. The special assistant further stated that more welfare initiatives will be introduced to support Zakat beneficiaries in the future.
Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2025/04/23/punjab-announces-10000-more-free-electric-bikes-for-students/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
