Peshawar Corps Commander Lieutenant General Khalid Rabbani on Thursday appreciated the tribal people for assisting the armed forces against terrorists. He was addressing participants of the De-radicalisation Emancipation Programme (DREP) at Tank. Anti-state elements carried out terrorist activities and killed many innocent people, particularly tribal people, for money, he said. Rabbani said that the armed forces were performing their duties with commitment and honesty and under the programme the armed forces had initiated a number of development projects, including communication networks, setting up of health and educational institutions and social welfare schemes in the Tribal Areas.
Rabbani hoped that successful participants of the programme will promote tolerance and brotherhood in their respective areas and would be an example for others. On directives of Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the DREP was initiated as part of a welfare movement in Tank in October 2011. The Peshawar corps commander also distributed certificates among successful participants of the programme.
