KARAK: Adviser to the chief minister on prisons Malik Qasim Khan Khattak has said that he would go to any extent for establishment of oil refinery in Karak district and resisting its shifting to Attock area of Punjab.

He was addressing a public meeting at Ganderi Khattak here on Monday. He said that a joint strategy would be evolved in consultation with other political parties on the refinery issue.

Mr Khattak claimed that the government had planned to lay down a pipeline to Attock for the purpose, which was not acceptable.

`The Khattak tribe will accept no excuse on the issue and will force the government to abandon the plan andconstructthereHneryin Karak,` he maintained.

The chief minister`s adviser said that Karak was producing 85 per cent of oil and gas in Kohat division and shifting of the mega project away from the district would not be a popular and just decision.

Mr Khattak said that Rs760 million had been approved for initiating work on the remaining portion of the 19 kilometer Amberi Kalay-Darra Tang road.

He said that Rs180 million had been earmarl(ed for provision of drinking water to the rest of areas in his constituency from the Lawagher dam. `Tenders for the project have already been published in the newspapers, he added.

Mr Khattak also inaugurated a water supply scheme in Ganderi Khattak area, which was completed at R s12 million.

He criticised the former provincial minister Malik Zafar Azam for what he said selling his vote in the Senate elections.

The provincial adviser said that under the leadership of Imran Khan, PTI would sweep the next general elections.