Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi extended his gratitude to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for allocating Rs 19 billion the Federal Budget for completion of the Chashma Lift Canal project that would help boost the wheat crop yield in the province. Talking to the media outside the Parliament House, Governor Kundi said after the project’s completion the province would be able to chip in the country’s wheat export along with meeting its local needs. The Chashma Lift Canal would be inaugurated during the current year, he added. The governor regretted that the promises made to federally and provincially administered tribal areas (FATA & PATA respectively) had not been fulfilled whereas the issues pertaining to the new taxes for the newly merged districts needed to be resolved.
“Everyone knows about the security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the KP chief minister must call an emergency meeting of the apex committee,” Kundi said. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was bragging about its education reforms whereas 26 universities in the province did not have a vice chancellor, he added.—APP
