PESHAWAR, Dec 28: Pakistan armymen are continuing surveillance along Pakistan-Afghanistan border as intensity of the weather continues to increase. Troops deployed in the area are braving the weather in a high state of morale and performing their assigned tasks with the assistance of local tribesmen whose support to the army has remained unprecedented.

Peshawar Corps Commander Lieutenant-General Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai visited troops positioned along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and announced a special development package for the tribal area in recognition of the cooperation they extended to the Pakistan Army the inaccessible belt.

The package envisages massive development in communication, health and education sector and is aimed at bringing a positive change in the life pattern of the people from Khyber, Orakzai and Kurram agencies.

Pakistan Army units present in the area have established several medical camps and makeshift schools in the area thereby providing health and education facilities.

Medical camps established by army medical corps are providing free medicines to the people. Referring to health centres in the far-flung village of Teerah, General Aurakzai said that side by side supply of medicines, the specialist doctors of the Pakistan Army were also coming from Peshawar and examining the patients.

Meanwhile, schools arranged by the army units have enrolled children from this area and army jawans are imparting basic education to students in addition to their assigned tasks of defending the borders.

The crops commander said that the government was especially interested in the development and welfare of the tribal people, adding that work on development schemes would start shortly.