NWA IDPs’ hard days passed, soon to return home: Gen.Rao

SHORKOT: Pakistan Army GOC (engineering division), Major General Akhtar Jamil Rao Saturday said that the difficult days of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) have passed and their return home would soon be made possible, Geo News reported.

While visiting IDPs relief camp at Shorkot in Dera Ismail Khan, Major General Akhtar Jamil Rao said that taking out the population from restive NWA and their shifting at peaceful areas prior to operation was most difficult. He said Pakistan Army working round the clock for making it possible for the IDPs to return to their homes as soon as possible.

On the other hand, Pakistan Army has taken control of the Khalifa Gul Nawaz Hospital in Bannu. The MS of the hospital has been removed and a management committee has been set up.

In-charge Khalifa Gul Nawaz Hospital, Col. Arif said that action would be taken against the absentee doctors, while sufficient medicines for 1,80,000 IDPs have already arrived.