QUETTA: Minister for Home and Tribal Affairs, Mir Zia Langove has said that the incumbent provincial government was adopting all measures to address the issues pertaining to settlements along Pak-Afghan border.
Comprehensive strategy would be devised after consulting people dwelling along Pak-Afghan border for addressing settlement issues, he informed while presiding over a third meeting in connection with fencing Pak-Afghan border held in the office of Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Home and Tribal Affairs Department.
He said that 83 percent fencing along the border had helped curtail the acts of terrorism from across the border. The meeting thoroughly deliberated upon the issues relating to progress of fencing along Pak-Afghan border, future course of action, law and order situation of the bordering areas and rehabilitation of divided villages along Pak-Afghan border.
During the course of meeting, it was informed by the concerned authorities that out of 213 kilometer fencing along Pak-Afghan border, fencing work on 182 kilometer had already been completed while 27 kilometer Pak-Afghan border would be fenced.
The meeting was attended by Brigadier Aamir Inayat, Sector Command, Brigadier Wajid, Southern Command office, Senator Manzoor Ahmed Khan Kakar, former Provincial Minister Captain (Retd) Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Home and Tribal Affairs Department, Government of Balochistan, Hafiz Abdul Basit, Commissioner Quetta Division, Asfand Yar Khan Kakar, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Quetta, Muhammad Azhar Akram, Commandant Chaman Scouts, Col Muhammad Rashid, Deputy Commissioner, Killa Abdullah and other civil and military authorities.