FATA uplift projects: Dutch minister assures financing

09 Sep, 2007

A three member Dutch delegation led by the Development Minister, Albert Gerad Koender met the Governor, NWFP Lieutenant General Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai (R) at the Frontier House Islamabad on Saturday. The discussion focused on co-operation between the two friendly countries, regarding regional peace and development.
The Governor briefed the delegation especially about the socio-economic conditions of the people of FATA and the development measures undertaken by the present government in far-flung areas.
Aurakzai said that for the first time, development projects are operative in otherwise totally neglected and underdeveloped areas like FATA added that education, health, agriculture and livestock projects need international co-operation particularly from Netherlands. The Dutch minister assured Aurakzai that the people and the government of Netherlands would continue their support in the ongoing projects undertaken to benefit the people of FATA.

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