Prime Minister Imran Khan, while addressing tribal elders at the Spinkai Raghzai area of South Waziristan on Wednesday, announced that Rs100 billion will be spent annually on the development of the tribal areas. The premier said that the amount that the government was going to spend annually had not been spent on the region in the past 70 years. He said that the people of the tribal areas would be provided with all those things they had not been provided thus far, and as a result of which they had been left behind.
He noted that the region was the poorest in the country, with the lowest education and highest unemployment, and that people would migrate from the area to earn money in places such as Karachi, Saudi Arabia and Dubai. Prime Minister Imran told his audience that he believes that the people of tribal areas had been left behind because “no one understood them nor did they try to understand them”.
The premier said that he believed that the country could not progress till all areas of the country were given a level playing field. He added that when he spoke about a ‘naya Pakistan’ (new Pakistan), he envisioned a Pakistan which should have been created in 1947 as per the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. The premier had begun his address by noting that he understood the culture and traditions of the people living in the tribal areas.
“I understand all your problems,” the premier said, adding that the purpose of his visit was to solve the problems faced by people in the region. Source: dawn.com
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
