MARDAN, May 3 Lawmakers from Buner district on Sunday visited relief camps at Jalala village and Sheikh Shehzad town in Mardan where they enquired about the facilities being provided to the internally displaced persons.

Istiqbal Khan, who was elected MNA on ANP ticket during recently held by-election on NA-26, Buner, and MPAs Qaisar Wali and Syed Rahim along with Buner district nazim Rauf Khan visited the camps.

The elected representatives assured the IDPs that the operation would end soon and they would be back in their homes.

The lawmakers condemned display of arms by certain elements in the garb of Taliban after the introduction of Nizam-i-Adl Regulation in the Malakand division. They pledged that no one would be allowed to challenge the writ of the state and the people would see very soon that the militants would be eliminated form the area.

The lawmakers also met with the affected persons individually and enquired about the facilities they were being provided at the camps. They also thanked Chief Minister NWFP Ameer Haider Khan Hoti for taking personal interest in the matter.

Meanwhile, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Mardan, Mohammad Adil Khan, while talking to this correspondent at the relief camp at Sheikh Shehzad Town, which has been set up at Mardan-Charsadda road, disclosed that more than 600 IDPs, most of them women and children, were registered in the camp.

He said that 300 IDPs had been registered at Jalala village where necessary facilities had been provided.

He thanked the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Unicef and other NGOs for extending relief in the IDP camps.

The DCO said that food, clean drinking water, tents, medicine and latrine facilities had been arranged in the camps while health and security staffs were available for 24 hours.