GEO 436 ISLAMABAD: The United Nations is actively engaged in mobilizing international community to assist Pakistan to help resolve its social and economic difficulties, said UN Special Envoy for Assistance to Pakistan, Jean-Maurice Ripert on Friday. "The United Nations understood Pakistan’’s difficulties and is approaching various donor countries to extend financial and social assistance for Pakistan,” Ripert said during a meeting with defence Minister Ch Ahmed Mukhtar. "This assistance shall be utilized for reconstruction of terror-ravaged areas of Malakand Division and Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) areas and rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),” he added. The Minister briefed the UN envoy about the economic and human losses suffered by Pakistan as a result of anti-terror operations. He urged the International community to realize and understand Pakistan’’s difficulties as the war on terror had inflicted billions of dollar losses on its economy, apart from devastating educational and health infrastructure particularly in the terror-affected areas. Ahmed Mukhtar said industrial zones needed to be set up in tribal areas with the help of international community to provide employment opportunities to residents of the area. He informed the envoy that Pakistan’’s economic conditions can be improved by granting it trade concessions by the Western World as well as entering into free agreement with it on the Turkish Model.
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