CM administers oath to press club office-bearers

M. Irshadullah

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Mahmood Khan administered to the newly-elected cabinet of Peshawar Press Club on Monday.

The chief minister on the occasion announced to provide scholarships in the name of late journalists Hafiz SanaUllah and Rahimullah Yousafzai in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Peshawar, to working journalists of Peshawar.

Mahmood Khan said a project for the solarization of Peshawar Press Club would be included in upcoming Annual Development Program.

The chief minister said the PTI will contest the second phase of local bodies’ election with full preparations and achieve brilliant success.

He said his government was focusing special attention on energy, tourism, agriculture and mineral sectors. Similarly, schools, hospital and mosques are being solarized under the clean and green energy initiatives of the province.

Moreover, he stated that rescue stations had been expanded to the tehsil level. Patwar reforms were being carried out and for the first time in the history of the province, female patwaris were being recruited; he remarked.

Mahmood Khan said the projects completed by the incumbent provincial government were also highly appreciated at the international forums among which the Billion Tree and BRT projects are noteworthy.