PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Friday performed the groundbreaking of two high-rise residential and commercial buildings on the Warsak Road here.

These multi-story buildings comprising a total of 1,240 residential flats of different sizes and other allied facilities will be completed at a total cost of Rs17.5 billion, according to a statement issued here.

One high-rise building will be constructed on more than five kanals of land, which will have three commercial and 10 residential floors. The other one will be constructed at Rehman Baba Complex on a 79-kanal of land having facility of 10 residential floors.

Addressing a ceremony held on the occasion, Mahmood Khan felicitated the provincial minister for housing and his entire team for initiating practical work on the construction of high- rise buildings, and said his government, in line with the vision of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, was working for the wellbeing of common man. He added that construction of apartment towers to provide residential facilities to the low-income people was also a part of that vision and strategy.

Mahmood Khan said the provincial government was going to launch the mega housing project of the province – New Peshawar Valley – which would be the only housing society to be established under the land sharing formula. He said government housing schemes were also being initiated on the available non-agricultural lands in other districts.

The chief minister said the provincial government was not only working on housing projects but also taking visible steps to protect the agricultural land in the province.

Touching upon the current political situation in the country, the chief minister said when the country was on the path of development and the people were realising the positive change in their lives, “a group of incompetent rulers had been imposed on the country”.

Mahmood Khan said two political parties ruled the country for 40 years, but they did nothing for welfare of people. He claimed that development projects of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been excluded from this year’s Public Service Development Programme.

He said free treatment facility for the people of the merged districts was also stopped by the federal government.

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2022