FATA huddle: CM K-P says AGN Kazi formula to be applied for sharing net hydel profit

K-P CM Mahmood Khan says PM Imran promised giving K-P its justified share

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan disclosed that Prime Minister Imran Khan has assured him that under the AGN Kazi formula the net hydel power share of the K-P government would be duly given.

The province would get its dues and transfer of resources soon, he said.

With regard to the complete merger of Fata with K-P the provincial government would be fully supported by the federal government he added.

He was presiding over a meeting on Fata merger at Chief Minister House Peshawar. Provincial government Spokesman Ajmal Khan Wazir, Chief Secretary, Naveed Kamran Baloch, Additional Chief Secretaries Sikandar Qayum, Shahzad Bangash, administrative secretaries Arshad Majeed, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Muhammad Israr, secretary home and secretary law also attended.

The meeting focused on the overall mainstreaming of the seven new districts of the erstwhile Fata, development strategy, projects approved so far, transfer of resources for the whole mainstreaming process, creation of posts, early completion of quick impact projects including education and health within six months, legal aspects of transfer of assets both moveable and immovable, working of anomaly committee, the pledged three percent of the NFC award and the tracking and putting into the implementation phase, all decisions both taken at the federal cabinet level and under the amendment in the Constitution for the smooth merger of erstwhile Fata into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The CM pointed out the the PM had expressed his consent to resolve the longstanding issues of the province that included the net hydel profit under the AGN Kazi formula, the smooth and accelerated mainstreaming of seven districts of the erstwhile Fata and the expeditious transfer of resources of the provincial dues.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 19^th, 2018.