PESHAWAR, June 29: The NWFP government has decided to rehabilitate and upgrade the 23-km-long Attar Sheeshah- Brarkot section of Mansehra-Muzaffarabad Road.

The decision was taken at a meeting between Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah and the visiting acting prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Syed Mumtaz Ali Gilani, who called on him here on Friday.

The governor approved reconstruction of a portion of the road from Ghari Habibullah to Brarkot, declaring that the cost of the project would be borne by the provincial government.

The rehabilitation of the road aims at facilitating travel between various towns of the Frontier province and the AJK.

The governor said: “We have to give special consideration to this project, keeping in view, the interest of our Kashmiri brethren.”

He asked the authorities to prepare a feasibility report about the project and submit estimates at the earliest.

Mr Gilani appreciated the good gesture the Frontier government extended to the people of Azad Kashmir, and said the rehabilitation of the important road would be would be a gift for the Kashmiris.