Poor families to get 1,000 houses every year: Malik Riaz

KARACHI: Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz has announced to provide 1,000 houses to poor families every year.
Medical expenses of these families will also be borne by Bahria Town, besides providing free education to one child of each family, he added.Talking to Geo News on Friday, Malik Riaz said that he wished to see every Pakistani having his own house.
These houses will be provided at Bahria Town Karachi located on the Super Highway. Each apartment will have two bed-rooms, bathroom, store and a living room. He requested the well-off people to spend their money on the well-being of poor.
A committee comprising a judge, a retired general, a journalist and a bureaucrat will be formed to allot these free-of-cost houses to poor families. Application forms will also be provided free-of-cost and only Rs500 will be charged from the allottees at the time of giving them possession of the apartments.
Malik Riaz said that these poor families will be provided all the facilities which are being offered to other members. “We have already introduced similar projects named ‘Awami Villa’ at the Bahria Town Pindi and Bahria Town Lahore,” he said.To a question, the Bahria Town chief said that he himself had experienced poverty in the past. “I was homeless and had a wish to own a house,” he added.