Acting President of ANP, Mohammad Adeel, has said that the team of NWFP for National Finance Commission (NFC) would succeed in making a visible dent in the status quo at the NFC forum, ensuring provision of due rights to the province. The team, he said, "is well prepared" to effectively persuade the participants of the NFC to concede to what he called the longstanding rights of NWFP province.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that it had been experienced since the formulation of NFC forum that with the support of the teams of all federating units and the centre, "we have been receiving positive signals. We are sure that this time there will be no problem in the resolution of net hydel profit issue".
Adeel said that NWFP has a long history of being denied by the federation. At the top, it is in the state of war for last three decades. It is over burdened by all times high influx of refugees. The existing infrastructure is deficient even to serve its own population, what to talk of serving more than 3.00 million additional refugees.
The unemployment, backwardness and poverty are other issues the Frontier province was facing. He hoped that the Lahore NFC forum would prove to be a fresh start for the province and this would be a sort of healing for the deep wounds of the province, he asserted. He said that NWFP was at the cross road of its history and whosoever can supported would be seen as a real humane attitude.
He made a vociferous demand to conduct a meeting of the technical committee to ascertain the outstanding amount on net hydel profit. He said that the one-month time given to the technical committee has already lapsed and a decision in this regard is yet to be taken.
He demanded that the first CRBC lift irrigation scheme should see the light of the day immediately, in order to make vast barren land of southern districts cultivatable. The said project was not even taken for discussion in the previous two meetings of the Ecnec.
He said that the federal government should direct Wapda to withdraw its case from the civil court against the already decided rights of the province on net hydel profit. The President, he said, should guarantee payment of net hydel profit along with decided outstanding amount on regularly basis. The province is yet to be fulfilled as the people are anxiously waiting for that.
Referring to the criticism on the provincial rights and renaming of Frontier province by certain political quarters, ANP acting president requested all political forces to soften their stand and concede to what the majority of the people of the province have been demanding.