Economic zone in Dir demanded.

LOWER DIR -- Jamaat-i-Islami youth wing and Lower Dir Chamber of Commerce have demanded of the provincial government to include the district in its planning for establishing new economic zones in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

JI youth provincial general secretary Hafeezullah Khaksar and Lower Dir Chamber of Commerce president Mian Noor Alam, senior vice-president Mohammad Imran and others told mediapersons here the other day that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf lawmakers from Dir should admit their failure and resign from the assembly as lower and upper Dir districts had been ignored in the planning.

They said that Chakdara was the gateway to nine districts of Malakand division and it should have been included in the planning for setting up an economic zone there.

They said the traders would start shutter down and wheel jam strikes if Dir was not included in the proposed economic zones planning.

They said the chief minister had announced 10 economic zones in the province, including Rashakai, Ghazi, Jalozai, Darband, Nowshera, Swat, Chitral, Buner, Mohmand and Shakas, but lower and upper Dir districts had been...