PPP to withdraw subsidies from aristocracy after coming to power: Hina Rabbani

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Former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said if voted to power, the PPP would withdraw subsidies from the aristocracy and 300 units of electricity would be provided free of charge to the poor, APP reports.

Addressing an electoral gathering in Qasba Gharmani, organized for the PPP candidate and her brother Raza Rabbani Khar in NA-180, she said that the people of her constituency had made it possible for her to represent the country.

She promised to establish a university, nursing college, vocational school, and the latest hospital in Kot Addu.

She recalled that her father Ghulam Muhammad Noor Rabbani Khar had brought gas, electricity and roads to the constituency.

Her younger brother and PPP candidate Raza Rabbani Khar vowed to build the constituency into an exemplary area after being elected and will weave a network of development works in the constituency.

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