PESHAWAR
KP Caretaker Minister for Tribal Affairs, Dr Aamir Abdullah has said that the release of the committed funds of Rs.100 billion would help resolve issues relating to uplift activities in the tribal districts of the province.
He expressed these views while addressing a tribal jirga held in the Deputy Commissioner’s Committee Room at Wana, district headquarters South Waziristan on Thursday.
Besides, Deputy Commiss- ioner (DC) South Waziristan Lower Nasir Khan, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Kashmir Khan, District Police Officer (DPO) Farmanullah Wardag and district heads of various department, tribal elites also attended the tribal jirga.
On this occasion, the tribal elders highlighted problems. Development projects, law & order and hurdles in uplift schemes in the district South Waziristan Lower in detail.
The tribal elders especially complained regarding unfulfillment of commitments made at the time of the merger of erstwhile Federal Administered Tribal Area (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and neither final shape was given to the recommendations of the Sartaj Aziz headed committee in this regard.
They requested the provincial minister for utilization of all available resources of the provincial government to initiate large-scale development schemes in the district to mitigate the problems of the residents of South Waziristan Lower.
The tribal elders and elected public representatives of the local government also highlighted various other issues and called for their address.
In response to the demands of the tribal elders and elites, the provincial minister conceded hurdles in the release of the committed fund of Rs.100 billion for the development of the tribal region. However, he said that the provincial government is in constant contact with the federal government in that regard.
Speaking about borders demarcation between South Waziristan Lower, South Waziristan Upper and North Waziristan, the provincial minister said that a commission would be formed soon to settled the dispute and added that in this connection Senior Member Board of Revenue (SMBR) has already been assigned the task.
