Lawmakers hailing from the strife-torn areas on the north-west frontier have asked Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to continue with the PM’s relief package till 2014 and to extend relief measures to other volatile areas.
Lawmakers expressed deep concern over the non-implementation of the relief package and observed that the federal government had not taken any steps to provide concessions as promised.
Premier Gilani had unveiled a relief package for volatile areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) to the residents of terror-hit areas for 2010-2011.
Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam Senator Ghulam Ali put up the demand while chairing a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce Islamabad.
The Senate panel unanimously agreed that compensation should be provided to the owners of houses and factories demolished by security forces.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 15th, 2011.
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