PR No. 246FINANCE MINISTER CHAIRS MEETING TO DISCUSS FATA RELATED ISSUES Islamabad: April 27, 2016

The Finance Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting here Tuesday to discuss FATA related issues.

Governor KPK, Zafar Iqbal Jhagra, Minister for States & Frontier Regions, Abdul Qadir Baloch, Senators / MNAs belonging to FATA and senior officials of Ministry of Finance, SAFRON and FATA Secretariat participated in the meeting.

During the meeting matters relating to development activities in the area as well as the long term rehabilitation of the region came under discussion.

The Finance Minister said the present government under the leadership of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is determined to create more economic opportunities in FATA and integrate it with the rest of the country. He said that the uplift of FATA is a priority for the Government. The government is committed to meet the expenses on rehabilitation of Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDPs) and reconstruction work in the affected areas of FATA and necessary resources will be made available for the purpose.

MNAs/Senators from FATA thanked the Finance Minister for the interest being taken by the Government for uplift of FATA, specially the efforts for rehabilitation of TDPs.

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