- Says Army, police and provincial government on same page against terrorism
PESHAWAR, January 27: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has said that our borders touching to Afghanistan are not safe and without securing these borders the cities can’t be made safe for people.
This, he said while talking to Ms. Joanna Reid, Head of DFID, who along with her delegation called on the Chief Minister here on Wednesday.
In her introductory call DFID Head lauded the commitment and engagement of the provincial government. “I am very excited by your remarkable achievements” she maintained.
Explaining security situation in the province, the CM said that entry points at Miran Shah, Angoradda and Toorkham were open for any sort of movement and terrorists involved in the recent Charsadda incident came from across the border. He elaborated that Army, police and provincial government were on same page against terrorism. Adding that the provincial government was implementing directives issued by the Federal government and there was no problem with federal government in this regard. The CM termed operation Zarb-e-azab as effective in clearing FATA from terrorists. “Suicide bombing incidents have dropped extremely as there is no hide out for the training of terrorists”, he remarked.
Briefing the DFID team about reforms strategy of the provincial government, the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said that government was bringing transparency in every department to eliminate corruption to change the system as he added that people had voted only for change to the present government.
The Chief Minister said that a number of laws including RTI had been passed to make things open for the people.
He told the delegation that government was focusing throughout the province on the welfare of common people to solve their problems. That is why police, health and education were given priority “Steps were taken to make police station as model centers and autonomy had been given to DHQ hospitals to facilitate common men, he added.-PR
