November 23, 2008	Sunday	Ziqa'ad 24, 1429

MANSEHRA, Nov 22: District Naib Nazim Attiqur Rehman Jahangery has said that until the deteriorating law and order situation in the Frontier was brought to normalcy, the province could not progress in any field.

“The chief minister was not allowed to proceed here last week to inaugurate a road project because of security risk, but he (chief minister) visited Abbottabad on the same day, which badly affected credibility of the district government,” he said.

He expressed these views while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the Institution of Advance Technology (IAT) here on Saturday. Among others district chief Jamaat-i-Islami Younas Khattak, Dr Ilyas and others also spoke on the occasion.

Mr Jahangery went on to say that if the provincial government wanted to put the province on the path of prosperity and development, it should first bring the law and order situation at normalcy, as tourism and other industries, which were once the important source of income for the province, had completely destroyed in the province.

He said that in the October 8, 2005 earthquake, about 1,300 girls and boys’ educational institutions were destroyed but despite lapse of over three years hardly 70 were rebuilt.

He said that that following the earthquake no heed was paid to reconstruct the damaged education infrastructure in the affected areas as a result 60 per cent schools were being run in tents and makeshift shelters.

The non-governmental organisations had plundered over 70 per cent money, which was meant for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the survivors as a result thousands of families were living in miserable condition in the shelters and tents, he added.