Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Advisor to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Information Ajmal Wazir has said that safe repatriation of overseas Pakistanis is top priority of government for which it is making all possible arrangement.
Briefing the media in Peshawar on Tuesday, he said that so far 40 dead bodies reached from Gulf States which were handed over to the bereaved families. Government has eased the lockdown in order to provide relief to the masses, he mentioned. However, the CM’s Advisor once again appealed to the traders and people to follow SOPs to contain the spread of coronavirus.
He said that teams comprising of Agriculture Department, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Pakistan Army and District Administration were Participating in anti locust operation. Ajmal Wazir further said that Anti-locust operations were underway in Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Karak, Hangu, Bannu, Kohat, Lakki Marwat, Orakzai, Kurram, South and North Waziristan, Khyber, Bajaur, Peshawar and Nowshera districts. He said that PDMA was in close liaison with the concern administrations and the situation were being monitored continuously.
Ajmal Wazir said that people could report the presence of locusts in their area on PDMA’s helpline number 1700 or Agriculture Department mobile number 03481117070.
