Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Provincial Minister for Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Akbar Ayub Khan said Monday that the government was taking concrete measures for ensuring socio-economic development of tribal districts to end their sense of its deprivation which was caused over the past 72 years. He said that Chief Minister Mehmood Khan was personally monitoring the development process of the tribal areas.
He expressed these views during his visit to Tehsil Jamrud of Khyber District where Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Haji Muhammad Shafiq Afridi, MPA Bilawal Afridi and Deputy Commissioner District Khyber Mehmood Aslam Wazir and other officials of relevant departments were in attendance. Additional Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Riaz briefed the minister about development schemes which were underway in the district. Speaking on the occasion, he had undertaken the visit under the special directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan to inquire about problems being faced by people of the area.
