peshawar   -   Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan on Monday said that no compromise would be made on peace, law and order situation in the province.

Presiding over a high level meeting on peace, law and order situation in KP, the Chief Minister said that law and order situation would be maintained at all costs in the province.

The meeting discussed future course of action in order to prevent law & order incidents in the province and several important decisions were made to this end. Special Assistant to KP Chief Minister Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, Chief Secretary Shahzad Bangash, Inspector General of Police Muazzam Jah Ansari, Principal Secretary to CM Amjad Ali Khan, Secretary Home Khushal Khan, Commissioner Peshawar Riaz Mehsud, CCPO Peshawar Ijaz Khan and other civil, military high-ups also attended the meeting.

The meeting was given a detailed briefing about factors of law & order incidents and steps being taken by the law enforcement agencies to prevent such incidents. The meeting was told that during the last two weeks law enforcement agencies have achieved major achievements against miscreants.

The participants were informed that the ratio of street crime has significantly decreased in the provincial capital since the Ababeel Force was established. The meeting also decided to make more recruitment for the newly established Ababeel Force as well as to prepare way forward in order to effectively stop the cultivation of drugs in certain parts of the province.

The Chief Minister directed the quarters concerned to chalk out comprehensive plan for providing alternate livelihood opportunities to the drug cultivators. He also directed to give special focus to district Bajaur, Khyber and North Waziristan regarding law & order situation.   The Chief Minister directed the authorities to take curative steps against the target killing of security forces and officials of other law enforcing agencies in the province. He further directed to accelerate intelligence-based actions against miscreants with special attention to actions against drug mafia and extortionists. He said that the provincial government will fulfil all the requirements of law enforcing agencies on priority.

Mahmood Khan said that actions taken by police and other law enforcing agencies against wrong doers and miscreants were appreciable. However he said that more actions under an integrated strategy were also needed to effectively deal with the issues. He made it clear that law and order would be maintained by all means in the province and his government would not make any compromise to this end.