PESHAWAR, June 23: NWFP’s Minister for Tourism, Sports and Information Technology Hussain Ahmad Kanju has said the provincial government will do everything in its power to revive the sick silk units of Swat.

He said this while talking to a delegation of the Swat Silk Industry Association (SSIA) here on Friday.

Members of the NWFP Assembly Mohammad Amin, Maulana Irfanullah and Maulana Nizamuddin attended the meeting. Members of the delegation urged the provincial government to take early steps for the revival of the silk industry, including provision of 25 per cent subsidy on electricity tariff, setting up of an industrial zone in Malakand and inclusion of special incentives for the industry in the provincial industrial policy.

They reminded the minister that the silk industry was on the verge of collapse.—APP