PESHAWAR, Sept 5: The Senate standing committee on states and frontier regions on Monday took note of lack of staff in the education and health institutions in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and recommended that immedite steps shuld be taken to provide the required employees. The meeting, presided over by the committee’s chairman Hamidullah Jan Afridi at the Governor’s House, was held to discuss the law and order situation and development activities in Fata. The governor’s principal secretary gave a briefing to the committee in this regard.

Members of the committee made queries and gave suggestions about the law and order situation in Fata with particular reference to the situation in North and South Waziristan agencies, establishment of the governor’s Fata secretariat and the local bodies system introduced in the tribal areas.

The committee stressed that Fata’s population should be determined as certain areas which were closed at the time of last census had been opened.

The committee recommended that feasibility and technical study for the construction of Bara dam should be accelerated.

Its members supported the establishment of the governor’s secretariat.

Governor Khalilur Rehman also attended the meeting briefly.