Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal explained

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) (ur|پاکستان بیت المال) is an autonomous charity organization which operates under the Prime Minister's Secretariat.^{[1] [2]}

History

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal in February 1992 during the first Nawaz Sharif government.^[3] The Bait-ul-Mal Act was signed into law by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1991.^[3]

Funding

Its funding sources include the Central Zakat Fund and federal government allocations.^[3]

In the fiscal year 2013, the Bait-ul-Mal disbursed Rs 6,186.4 million to 147,361 beneficiaries. It also approved the creation of senior care homes known as Ehsaas Kadaa. In 2009 and 2010, it allocated Rs 635 million to assist internally displaced persons in Jalozai, Mardan, and Swabi during military operations in Malakand and Swat.^[3]

Programs

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal focuses on supporting widows, orphans, the disabled, students, and the elderly, providing financial aid such as Rs 25,000 per household with more than one disabled person.^[3] It is also the sponsor of Benazir Income Support Programme. It also provides money to poor and deserving students of almost all universities of Pakistan.^{[2] [4]}

Sweet Homes

The Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal operates twelve Sweet Homes that function as both residences and schools for orphans. These facilities are situated in Attock, Kohat, Mansehra, Mardan, and Swat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; Dipalpur, Gujrat, and Sargodha in Punjab; Karachi and Nawabshah in Sindh; Quetta and Zhob in Balochistan, Pakistan.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bait-ul-Mal launches special scheme to help the poor. Bakhtawar Mian. 25 July 2014. Dawn . 30 January 2018.
2. News: Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal asked to raise dowries for orphans. Dawn . 20 March 2009. 5 September 2020.
3. Book: Candland, Christopher . The Islamic Welfare State: Muslim Charity, Human Security, and Government Legitimacy in Pakistan . Cambridge University Press . 2024 . 9781009268417 . 227 . The Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal was established in 1992 during the first government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Government of Pakistan regards the Bait-ul-Mal as a response to the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Unlike the Zakat and Ushr Ordinance, which created the Zakat Committees and was promulgated by General Zia ul Haq in 1980, the Bait-ul-Mal is a body created through an act of parliament. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan signed the Bait-ul-Mal Act into law in 1991. The Bait-ul-Mal operates from within the Prime Minister’s Secretariat as an autonomous body. The Bait-ul-Mal is financed from the Central Zakat Fund and from the central (federal) government..
4. News: Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal to assist people with disabilities. Associated Press of Pakistan (APP). The Express Tribune . 23 August 2020. 5 September 2020.