The government is trying to provide opportunities to tribesmen through skill development, agriculture, livestock and medium-scale enterprise initiatives, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kausar said on Friday. He was talking to the visiting Assistant State Secretary of Switzerland, Beat Nobs, who called on him at the Governor House. Swiss Ambassador in Pakistan Christoph Bubb and Senior Swiss Regional Co-ordinator Teter Nelson, Peshawar accompanied him.
Youth, he said, were being trained in various trades and professional skills and the government is focusing on the development of mineral, agricultural and communication sectors, besides promoting economic opportunities. Terrorism and militancy, he said, were international issues and "we feel satisfied for having overcome them successfully".
The government, he said, had cleared a vast chunk of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with the support of the tribal people and law-enforcement agencies, adding that after eliminating militancy, efforts were under way to reconstruct the damaged infrastructure and rehabilitate civic amenities. According to the governor, people in Fata used to be highly peaceful, accommodative and democratic minded and the problem of terrorism was alien to them.
Referring to the importance of trade and business activities towards promotion of employment opportunities in Fata, the governor said that apart from the famous international route of Torkham four other points were also being developed for enhancing accessibility of transit trade with Afghanistan.
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