South Waziristan project: 68 villages hooked to power grid

ISLAMABAD: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided electricity to 68 villages of South Waziristan Agency besides construction of roads and bridges under Fata Infrastructure Project-2010-2018. Mission Director of USAID to Pakistan John Groarke said this while talking to APP about developmental projects in various agencies of Fata. Responding to a question, the mission director said that USAID was working on the project with the Fata Secretariat to build, rehabilitate, and reconstruct roads that connect remote communities to markets. A number of other social services to restore electricity infrastructure, and improve access to water for human consumption and agricultural irrigation were also being executed in various parts of Fata with the funding support of USAID, Groarke said.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 15^th,  2016.