CHITRAL, Sept 7: Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervaiz Kiyani has said that concrete steps will be taken to check the incursion of militants from Afghanistan into Chitral and for this purpose the personnel of Chitral Scouts will be deployed along the border.

Addressing a darbar of Chitral Scouts and elite of the area in Drosh cantonment here on Wednesday, the army chief announced that all the six wings of Chitral Scouts deployed in different areas of the country will be called back.

He also announced a number of projects for the amelioration of the people's life in the border areas which included widening and blacktopping of the 27-kilometre Mirkhani-Arandu Road, reconstruction of the suspension bridges over Chitral River which had been demolished on tactical grounds during the recent skirmish.

He also announced about 20 water supply schemes and schools for the area. The Peshawar corps commander Lt-Gen Asif Yasin Malik was also present on the occasion. The Chitral-Peshawar Road remained blocked for more than four hours at Drosh due to the arrival of the army chief. — Correspondent