PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The NWFP cabinet will meet here on Monday after a delay of two months to discuss a 16-point agenda, an official told Dawn here on Friday.

The cabinet held its last meeting on June 16 as, according to provincial minister for information Asif Iqbal Daudzai, the cabinet could not hold meetings because of the hectic schedule of chief minister and his colleagues.

“There is no specific reason for the delay,” Mr Daudzai said, adding that the cabinet would discuss a number of issues in its upcoming meeting including the proposed upgradation of the Khyber Medical College to medical university and establishment of a women’s university in the NWFP.

The government had earlier announced that the proposed women’s university would temporarily start its classes in the Frontier College for Women, Peshawar.

The MMA government allocated an initial funding amounting to a million rupees in the annual provincial budget. It appeared that the government was in a haste to start the women university as well as a women’s medical college, which had been central in its political agenda.

The cabinet was also expected to discuss the establishment of an endowment fund for providing free treatment to poor patients and the privatisation of agriculture farms in the province.

Sources said that chief minister would leave for Saudi Arabia after the cabinet meeting for performing Umra.