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Frontier governor to release development funds

RECORDER REPORT

SHAKARDARA (KOHAT): The NWFP Governor, Lt Gen Mohammad Shafiq (Retd), told the tribal elders from his home district here on Saturday that within the next few days he would be able to release the developmental funds which had been frozen earlier.

The governor said this while addressing the elders of Orakzai, Hungo and Shakardara region of Kohat district after spudding drilling operations on Shakardara's second oil well that is targeted to a depth of 5, 100 metres.

Mohammad Shafiq asked the elders to prepare schemes for the betterment of the area and ensure that the money provided was "honestly and properly" utilised and there was no wastage. "It was precious and hard earned money that will be provided to the area and it must not be wasted," he exhorted.