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NWFP CM thanks people of city for hosting IDPs

By Fawad Ali Shah

KARACHI: NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Thursday thanked the people of Karachi for hosting the internally displaced persons.

He was talking to the media at the Mardan House on the occasion of a dinner organised by ANP Sindh chapter President Shahi Syed.

Hoti appreciated the ANP Sindh chapter’s efforts to serve the community through social welfare activities and promised that his government would donate ambulances to Karachi’s Bacha Khan Trust.

“I am also the servant of Karachi Pukhtoons and they will find me wherever they need help,” he went on to say. He said Rs 10 billion given to his province by the federal government as electricity royalty would be spent on tourism and hydel power projects.

Hoti said his government wanted to invest in other development projects, like search of oil and gas. “We are in a state of war, but we are courageous and would exterminate the pest of terrorism from our beloved land,” he vowed.

Regarding terrorism as the outcome of the past policies of the state, he said the government was now moving in the right direction.

The CM said his government had demanded Rs 83 billion from the federal government for reconstructing the Malakand division.

“Extremism has been defeated in the Malakand division and now is the time to start the reconstruction and rehabilitation work in the area,” he informed the reporters. He said the people of Malakand were demanding that Muslim Khan and his accomplices be hanged in the “grassy ground of Malakand.”

He vowed that peace would be restored in Malakand and terrorism eradicated from the soil of Pukhtoons, and said it was an honour that the followers of Bacha Khan were in power in the NWFP at a critical time.

About renaming the province, he said ANP would soon unite all political parties and get NWFP’s name changed to Pukhtoonkhwa.

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