PESHAWAR: The West Pakistan Minister for Revenue, Rehabilitation and Tribal Affairs, Mr Ghulam Sarwar Khan, has emphasised the need of setting up small industries in the tribal areas.

This was necessary for yielding optimum results in the form of employment of skilled and unskilled labour and utilisation of local raw material, he said, while presiding over a meeting of the Master Plan Committee in Govern­ment House, Peshawar yesterday [March 28].

The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Small Industries Corporation, Lt-Gen Bakhtiar Rana, the Commissioner of the Peshawar division, Nawabzada Sher Afzal Khan, Commissioner of D.I. Khan Division, Mr Wajeehuddin Ahmad and representatives of the West Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation and Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan. The Minister said that President Ayub Khan was personally taking a keen interest in the development of the tribal areas and the present Government was determined to bring the tribal areas at par with the developed parts of the country.

Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2018