The provincial government has initially allocated Rs240 million for reconstruction work .PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
The City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) on Tuesday handed over the seminary and shops in Raja Bazar which were burnt down during the Ashura violence to the Frontier Works Organization (FWO) for reconstruction.
The city government assigned the task to FWO after signing an agreement with all the stakeholders, including the seminary administration and representatives of the traders.
The agreement was signed in a meeting chaired by District Coordination Officer Sajid Zafar held at the damaged site of Makkah Market and was attended among others by the area’s Member National Assembly from the ruling party Malik Ibrar, former parliamentarians Hanif Abbasi and Sardar Naseem, representative of the seminary Maulana Muhammad Siddiqu and representatives of traders.
FWO will start reconstruction work from Wednesday for which the provincial government has initially allocated Rs240 million.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2013.
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