Apex committee meeting: Checkpoints to be handed to K-P police
Decision will be implemented after law and order situation reviewed
PHOTO: AFP
PESHAWAR:
The provincial apex committee has decided to hand over the checkpoints where army personnel were deployed to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police.
This was announced during a meeting in the city chaired by Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan.
The step would be taken after law and order situation is reviewed in these areas.
During the moot, participants said the police would make sure they do not become a nuisance for the public. They said the police would treat them with respect and protect them from anti-state elements.
The presence of Frontier Constabulary in other parts of the country was also discussed. The provincial government has been requesting the Centre to send FC back to K-P. But since the force comes under the interior ministry, they have been deployed in various parts of Pakistan. Therefore, at the meeting it was decided the provincial government would request the federal government to once again return eight FC platoons. Upon returning the personnel would be deployed at various parts of Karakoram Highway.
NAP and IDPs
Participants also reviewed progress on the National Action Plan and suggested effective steps for its implementation.
The repatriation of the displaced population was also brought up at the moot. The governor stressed the displaced population should be returned to their hometowns at the earliest. As per data of the Federal Disaster Management Authority, around 81,496 IDPs have returned to Khyber Agency, 15,798 to South Waziristan Agency, 12,359 to North Waziristan and 711 to Orakzai. Participants were also told that polio vaccines are administered to the displaced children.
Illegal money
The issue of illegal money transfers was also addressed at the meeting. It was decided the source from where terrorists were funding their activities will also be determined and an end will be brought to hawala and hundi, illegal money transfer systems.
The meeting was attended by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, Corps Commander Lieutenant General Hidayatur Rahman, Chief Secretary Amjad Ali Khan, IGP Nasir Durrani and FATA Additional Chief Secretary Muhammad Aslam Kamboh.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 18th, 2015.
The provincial apex committee has decided to hand over the checkpoints where army personnel were deployed to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police.
This was announced during a meeting in the city chaired by Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan.
The step would be taken after law and order situation is reviewed in these areas.
During the moot, participants said the police would make sure they do not become a nuisance for the public. They said the police would treat them with respect and protect them from anti-state elements.
The presence of Frontier Constabulary in other parts of the country was also discussed. The provincial government has been requesting the Centre to send FC back to K-P. But since the force comes under the interior ministry, they have been deployed in various parts of Pakistan. Therefore, at the meeting it was decided the provincial government would request the federal government to once again return eight FC platoons. Upon returning the personnel would be deployed at various parts of Karakoram Highway.
NAP and IDPs
Participants also reviewed progress on the National Action Plan and suggested effective steps for its implementation.
The repatriation of the displaced population was also brought up at the moot. The governor stressed the displaced population should be returned to their hometowns at the earliest. As per data of the Federal Disaster Management Authority, around 81,496 IDPs have returned to Khyber Agency, 15,798 to South Waziristan Agency, 12,359 to North Waziristan and 711 to Orakzai. Participants were also told that polio vaccines are administered to the displaced children.
Illegal money
The issue of illegal money transfers was also addressed at the meeting. It was decided the source from where terrorists were funding their activities will also be determined and an end will be brought to hawala and hundi, illegal money transfer systems.
The meeting was attended by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, Corps Commander Lieutenant General Hidayatur Rahman, Chief Secretary Amjad Ali Khan, IGP Nasir Durrani and FATA Additional Chief Secretary Muhammad Aslam Kamboh.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 18th, 2015.