PESHAWAR, Aug 3: The Awami National Party-led provincial government is in the process of establishing a business city and stock exchange in Peshawar to boost trade activities and create job opportunities for youths.

This was stated by Gulmina Bilal, member of the ANP’s working committee in a statement here on Sunday. She claimed that the World Bank had resumed financial assistance to the Frontier province due to the party’s ‘good policies’.

Ms Bilal said the provincial government had extended the services of the more than 1,000 contractual lecturers, who were terminated during the former MMA-led government. The ANP, she opined, was an ideological political force that sought to serve the masses without any discrimination.

Unlike the past rulers, none of the ANP ministers or leaders had proceeded abroad for treatment on the tax payers’ money, she said, adding law and order situation was being given attention and recruitments in the police department were underway to cope with the growing militancy in the violence-hit districts of the province.

Ms Bilal vowed to render every effort to improve the law and order situation in the province and to safeguard the lives and property of the people. The ANP, she said, was following the path of ‘talks and negotiations’ with militants, because the party’s politics revolved around ‘non-violence’.

However, she said, the government would use all measures to establish its writ wherever needed. Under the leadership of Asfandyar Wali Khan, she said, the ANP workers were united to implement the manifesto of the party for the betterment of the people.