Ex-governor wants rights to tribes people

PESHAWAR: Former governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Gen (R) Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai on Wednesday said that terrorism could not be eliminated sans removing sense of deprivation and giving rights to tribespeople.

Speaking at an event in Islamabad, he said the services of Comprehensive Health and Education Forum (CHEF) International in health and education sectors were highly commendable.

He said the organisation done a very good job in tribal areas and deserved to be given credit for this. He said the tribespeople were neglected and feared that terrorism would not be defeated until mainstreaming of tribal areas.

CHEF Chairman International Professor Dr Mohammad Daud Khan said the organisation established a state-of-the-art 50-bed hospital in Charsadda.

He said that patients suffering from eye related diseases were treated, provided general medicines, prosthetic limbs and extended facilities in the fields of physiotherapy and other women gender related issues and complication at the facility.

He said the organisation spent Rs160 million on rehabilitation of affectees, spent another Rs40 million to make functional various BHUs, provided Rs17 million free medicines to needy patients and spent another Rs37 million on rehabilitation of primary schools alone in Charsadda district.