KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has said that the provincial government has the wherewithal to lead the province towards sustainable economic growth adding that tourism, energy and mineral resources would be the mainstay of the future economy. He was talking to Shehzad Roy, National Good-Well Ambassador for United Nation office on drugs and crime Pakistan, who called on him at CM House Peshawar.
The chief minister said that the provincial government would not only welcome the investors but would facilitate them guaranteeing their investment to pay them back and that would also lead this province and its people towards prosperity. He also identified different areas including entire Malakand and Hazara divisions for diversified tourism potentials needing, tapping and that would boost the whole of the province.
Speaking of his mind for using the diversified advantages of the province, he said that there will be a shift from irregular economy to the regular economy in the province. The government has made dozens of legislations in its previous tenure for transparency, corruption free governance and expeditious dispensation of justice and prominent among them is the law against ice and other life threatening drugs.
The provincial government, he said, would discourage child abuse and facilitate the spiral of silence for those who could not speak out about their problems and in the process becomes isolates in the society.
On this occasion, Shehzad Roy brought to the notice of Chief Minister the issue of drug prevention in educational institutions in KP, innovative ideas for introduction of early education in mother language and promotion of tourism related activities in the province.
The Chief Minister said that they have concerns about the ice drug in our educational institutions and he had already directed for drastic steps to eliminate it. He assured to work on the lines identified and followed by the developed nations for the quality education in the province. Quality will be the only yard stick in our whole educational reforms initiatives and there would be no compromise on He assured to conduct a meeting between the Shehzad Roy led UN delegation and the education department for innovative reforms for promotion of education in the mother language at the early stage of education.