LANDI KOTAL – The first ever historic KP cabinet meeting began here on Thursday with Chief Minister Mehmood Khan in the chair after merger of seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions into the province in the wake of 25th constitutional amendment.
The entire cabinet ministers, advisors and provincial government’s machinery moved to this border town in a bid to a give a sense of ownership to tribal people in the national development besides ending their long sense of deprivation. The cabinet meeting started in the historic Jirga Hall built during British era.
History in the making :: For the first time in history of Pakistan, a provincial cabinet meeting is taking place in Khyber district (former FATA), chaired by CM KP Mahmood Khan, attended by KP Ministers, Advisors and relevant officials #KPKUpdates pic.twitter.com/fqpXRVRz8q
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Before starting of the cabinet meeting, the Chief Minister in a brief chat with the local media men said all the promises made with people of the merged areas with regard to employment, development, health, education, roads, drinking water, Sehat Insaf cards, promotion of tourism would be fulfilled.
The network of development projects would be laid from Waziristan to Bajaur tribal districts, he said, adding that the cabinet meetings would also be held in all district headquarters of the merged areas.
To a question he said, the matters related to development of merged areas and bringing them at par with developed parts of the province would be discussed in the first cabinet moot.
He explained that cabinet meeting would discuss the reconstruction and development phase and the emerging problems of areas arisen out of the merger.
Information Minister, Shaukat Yousafzai, Spokesman for KP government Ajmal Wazir and Chief Secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch were present on the occasion.
The welcoming banners were put on display from Bab-e-Khyber in Jamrud tehsil to Landi Kotal on Pak-Afghan highway and the distinguished chief minister, provincial ministers, advisers and high-ranking officials of the provincial administration were received by enthusiastic tribesmen and tribal elders at different points with full throated slogans of Pakistan Zindabad.
Similarly, strict security arrangements were made on the entire route up to Landi Kotal which was properly manned by FC and Khasadar Force.
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