Development: Kausar demands funds for FATA uplift

Failure to release funds in time has delayed development projects in the area.

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister Masood Kausar on Thursday demanded of the federal government to release funds  for the completion of ongoing development projects in the tribal areas and to kick-start the new ones. He said this during a briefing about Annual Development Plan for 2012-13 given by Chief Executive FDA Shah Sahib at the Governor House. The governor said that Planning Commission had repeatedly promised to release funds in time but could not fulfill its promise which delayed development projects in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Published in The Express Tribune, July 27^th, 2012.