LANDI KOTAL: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan will visit Bagh Maidan area of Tirah valley today (Tuesday) where he is expected to announce a development package for the thousands of internally displaced persons who recently returned to the valley, local administration officials said on Monday.

An earlier scheduled visit by the governor to the valley on May 29 was cancelled at the last moment due to security concerns. Local elders, school children and officials of different departments waited in vain for hours at the makeshift helipad at Bagh Maidan when security officials announced cancellation of the visit.

Officials conceded that a huge sum of Rs5 million went to waste due to the last minute cancellation of the governor`s visit.They said that alongside announcing a comprehensive development package aimed at rehabilitating and improving the basic infrastructure, the governor would also inaugurate the offices of political administration, established for the first time in Tirah, a Nadra swift center and a model school in Kuz Bagh.

The governor will also meet local elders and listen to their grievances and demands, said the officials. Khyber Agency political agent Syed Shahab Ali Shah, assistant political agent Bara Nasir Khan along with contingents of khasadars and levies have already reached the Bagh Maidan to oversee the security arrangements. Correspondent