Govt collaborating with provinces on administrative issues: Ahsan Iqbal.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Professor Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday said the coalition government was collaborating with all provinces on administrative issues without any political distinction.

Chairing a meeting with cross sectional experts on 'nutrition to formulate response' in the wake of recent calamitous floods, Ahsan Iqbal underscored that the Federal Government has been administratively collaborating with the provincial governments irrespective of any political discrimination adding that every citizen has to partake his role in this national cause, said a press press release issued here..

The minister remarked that the most backward regions in the country were worst hit by the recent floods that left big challenge for us.

He added that enormous resources were required to rebuild and restructure these backward districts and volume of expenditure to be incurred will cross the earlier estimate of Rs 40 billion for 20 most backward districts.

The government was committed with full resolve to rebuild these areas in order to address the sense of alienation among the people in these regions.

The minister while urging the participants to leave at-least three possible...

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