KARAK: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has formed a lawmakers committee to engage all the stakeholders to resolve the disputes between the people and the oil and gas companies operating in the Kohat division.

Sources said the chief secretary had issued a notification of the formation of the committee with MNA Shahid Khattak from Karak as its chairman and CM’s adviser Zaiullah Bangash from Kohat and MPA Mohammad Zahoor, special assistant to the chief minister, as its members. Commissioner Kohat division will act as its member-cum-secretary.

The sources said the committee had been mandated to engage all the stakeholders to resolve the disputes related to oil and gas companies’ corporate social responsibilities towards uplift of the intervention areas.

Besides, the committee will discuss and highlight any other issue with the companies if it deemed it appropriate.

They said the chief minister had taken the step in the wake of the ongoing protest sit-in of a jirga demanding development of the resource-rich region.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2020