PESHAWAR:Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs Akbar Ayub Khan Friday urged the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) to take appropriate steps for making Peshawar – a city of flowers and parks beautiful again while maintaining its golden traditions like Hayatabad and Regi Model Town.

This he said during progress review session with PDA Director General at LG Secretariat Peshawar. Secretary LG Shakeel Ahmed was also present on the occasion.

Akbar Ayub Khan clarified that as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan and the directives of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, we have to make the provincial metropolitan Peshawar environment friendly and healthy city by eliminating its pollution.

“We have to make Peshawar that attractive globally for tourists and investors so that this historic city gain its glory of the past,” he added.

The Minister said that Peshawar nourished our generations but its beauty was marred gradually due to wrong and neglect policies of the previous regimes and PDA had to ensure its beautification. He said plantations and footpaths at both sides of the roads and highways was must to contribute in making its environment pleasant.

He expressed the confidence that PDA engineers and architects would work tirelessly to reshape Peshawar as the most beautiful city of the country. “This is only possible when PDA shows its worth by the dint of executing its numerous development schemes at large,” he concluded.