BISP Chairperson Senator Rubina Khalid says the viral claims about one identity card being linked to 5,598 women are based on a misunderstanding of audit observations, not evidence of fraud.
ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has rejected circulating claims that a single national identity card was linked to 5,598 women, describing the reports as misleading and taken out of context.
Responding to the controversy, BISP Chairperson Senator Rubina Khalid said the audit report identified 5,598 cases of mismatched marital data, not one individual with 5,598 wives. She stressed that some quarters had misrepresented the audit observations, creating unnecessary confusion.
According to Rubina, registering multiple spouses does not provide any additional financial benefit because only one payment is issued per eligible household, regardless of the number of wives recorded. She added that all BISP payments are processed only after verification and profiling by NADRA, making payments without official verification impossible.
The chairperson explained that the identified cases relate to data profiling and record correction, not financial irregularities or corruption. She noted that BISP completed a comprehensive data re-verification exercise in June 2025.
Rubina said the programme’s database contains records for 38.7 million households and nearly 200 million identity records, making 5,598 mismatched cases evidence of an effective monitoring and audit system rather than systemic failure.
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