June 29, 2020 -Islamabad: The 40^th meeting of the BISP board was held at BISP headquarters in Islamabad. Dr. Sania Nishtar, PM’s Special Assistant on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation and Chairperson, BISP convened the board meeting. Since Dr. Nishtar took over as a board chair in November 2018, as many as 10 board meetings (>statutory requirement) have been held; agendas are prepared well by board sub-committees and Conflict of Declarations are signed by each board member at each board meeting.