The provincial cabinet of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Tuesday approved Post Crisis Need Assessment (PCNA) for the rebuilding of the terrorism affected province and Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) and inclusion of all languages spoken in the province as compulsory subjects in the syllabus.
The decisions were taken in a special meeting of the provincial cabinet held in the Cabinet Room of the Civil Secretariat with Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti in the chair. Briefing the newsmen regarding decisions taken during the cabinet meeting, the Provincial Minister for Information, Mian Iftikhar Hussein said that during the meeting, the Director General, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), gave briefing on the document of PCNA. The PCNA document is answer to the questions raised by the donors regarding steps for the development of the terrorism affected areas and requirements for their development.
Donor agencies, he said are of the view that only reconstruction is no solution to the problem, saying it required preparation of a comprehensive strategy. Procedure is used at international level and has brought positive results in Colombia. The document, he said is future course of action for establishment of peace, whose preparation had taken a period of 10 months.
The strategy, he said beside the provincial and federal governments had prepared in co-operation with four international institutions. "It is not a new discovery, rather all problems have been unified and then a comprehensive strategy is prepared for their resolution," told Mian Iftikhar.
The first of the phase, he added has been accomplished with the preparation of the document and now it would be put before the international community and particularly before the forum of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan, whose meeting summit is scheduled in the second week of the current month.
The review of the strategy, he said has been presented before the government in the shape of comprehensive documents aiming establishment of peace in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. However, success of the strategy will depend on their enforcement in letter and spirit. There are no options available and nor these proposed measures would be separated from each other, saying it is a process of actions that would be reviewed time to time.
The state is required to give maximum rights and equal opportunities to the people that will result in the establishment of the writ of the law, provision of facilities and creation of employment opportunities. The targets of the government, he added are making the state move effective for the restoration of the confidence of the people, increase in the reaction and increasing opportunities of employment, guaranteeing the provision of basic facilities and carrying forward the process of reconciliation, arrest of the extremism.
For the achievement of these targets the government, he said will give full attention to nine sectors of good governance, rule of law, agricultural and natural resources, social development, infrastructure, health, social security and strategic communication.