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Federal Govt approves over Rs2bn for uplift of FATA

Published February 18, 2017 Updated February 18, 2017 09:31am

ISLAMABAD: Federal government has approved more than two billion rupees for different development projects in FATA.

Official sources of FATA Secretariat talking to Radio Pakistan said that the amount would be spent on construction and repair of roads, hospitals, agriculture, irrigation and forests schemes in tribal areas.

It would help improve socio-economic conditions of people of tribal area, he added.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2017