PESHAWAR, Feb 1: British High Commissioner Mark Lyall Grant and Ambassador of the European Union Ilkka Uusitalo on Saturday visited Lakki Marwat and Bannu districts on the invitation of PML's secretary-general Salim Saifullah Khan.

Leading a five-member delegation, Ilkka Uusitalo, who is also head of the European Commission for Pakistan, visited the under-construction district headquarters hospital, Lakki Marwat, Lakki Cement Plant at Pezu and the women and children's hospital at Ghazni Khel.

Speaking in Urdu at a function of nazims, naib nazims and others, Mr Mark Lyall Grant expressed his regard for the area, saying before partition of the subcontinent, his (Mr Grant) grandfather had lived in the area for quite a long time. The UK's High Commissioner recalled that Lyallpur - now renamed Faisalabad - in Punjab was named after his grandfather.-APP