Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said on Monday that the new setup would not compromise on the police, and that their pay would no longer be the lowest. He was speaking at a press conference in Peshawar, Dawn reported.
Kundi said he had told the inspector general and the chief secretary that if KP police pay is not the highest, it will at least be equal. He said the administration would get the police and soldiers the weapons and other resources they asked for.
He said a security meeting on Sunday had put development second. The first claim on resources, he said, was whatever the police and the Crime Control Department asked for. “We can sacrifice our development, but never security,” he said.
Earlier on Monday, Kundi and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi co-chaired the provincial apex committee. Kundi said there had been a lack of synergy in counterterrorism and that the administration would meet the demands of the Counter-Terrorism Department and the police. Naqvi said it was the first time he could say the federal and provincial governments were on the same page, and that a war could not be won unless the government led it.
An official handout said the forum ordered coordinated steps against terrorism, that intelligence-based operations would continue, and that police and the CTD would be given modern equipment, vehicles, effective weapons, personnel and other resources. It also said basic services and local priorities would be considered in policy.
Dawn, citing notifications, reported that the provincial law department had de-notified 61 law officers of the advocate general’s office, including 26 additional advocates general, 31 assistant advocates general and four advocates-on-record, and had appointed 27 new law officers.
