Programme to revitalize FATA economy launched
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PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has pronounced that a people of a Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) have been pang for a really prolonged time and their miseries increasing manifolds when they were replaced from their internal places.
Jhagra was addressing a rising rite of a Fata Economic Revitalisation Programme during a Governor House, Peshawar on Tuesday.
The $120 million plan would be jointly saved by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and a United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A chit of bargain between a nation heads of a dual organisations was also sealed in this regard.
“We saw many people journey their homes; withdrawal their means of vital behind; abandoning their prolific lands; seeking safety, confidence and pursuit elsewhere, hence exerting vigour on other resources and services that were hardly sufficient to support a hosting communities,” pronounced a governor.
Some parties still have reservations over FATA merger
Hailing a launch of a project, he said, “Together with a donors and many other friends, we have been successful to conduct a conditions in a past and hence, are really grateful to all of them for timely realising a belligerent realities.”
Under a Fata Economic Revitalization Programme, 15,000 families from North Waziristan, South Waziristan and Khyber Agency will be benefited by building internal resources.
UNDP Country Director Ignacio Artaza, USAID Assistant Administrator Gregory Huger, Fata Additional Chief Secretary Sikandar Qayyum and others were benefaction on a occasion.
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