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Punjab government to assist IDPs of FATA: Shahbaz

* High schools to be established in all agencies in tribal

Staff Report

LAHORE: The Punjab government will do all it can to assist the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of FATA and will establish high schools in eight agencies there, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday.

Speaking with FATA parliamentarians at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, he said a fully equipped Danish School would be set up in the area with the school’s site being selected by a committee made up of FATA parliamentarians.

He said a special committee had been formed, under the chairmanship of Senior Adviser Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa to assist the IDPs. Shahbaz said the Punjab government would not leave the “IDPs of South Waziristan and other areas unattended in their hour of need”, adding that the provincial government would assist them in every way. He said the Punjab government would provide modern education facilities in FATA, adding that high schools would be established in agencies including Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzai, Kurram, North Waziristan, South Waziristan and Frontier Agency.

He said a Danish School would be established in FATA, which would be a gift from the people of Punjab to their brothers in FATA. He said that FATA members of parliament would select both a suitable site for the school and the members of the school’s board of governors.

The visiting FATA parliamentarians thanked the CM for Punjab’s assistance for the IDPs. They said that by extending a helping hand to the IDPs of Swat and Malakand, the CM had won the hearts of the people of the area. Federal Minister for Zakat and Ushr Noorul Haq Qadri, Federal Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Minister of State for Kashmir Affairs Abdul Razzaq, Parliamentary Leader of FATA in National Assembly Munir Khan Orakzai, Senator Malik Rasheed Ahmad Khan, Members National Assembly Muhammad Kamran Khan, Shaukat Ullah, Zafar Beig Bhattani, senior advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan, Member National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Sharif and Senator Ishaq Dar were also present on the occasion.

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