Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan and Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong today (Monday) inaugurated the project of reconstruction of destroyed schools in tribal district Khyber.

This joint venture of governments of China and Pakistan will be completed by 2023 at a cost of more than two-thousand million rupees.

In the first phase, a total of fifty schools including twenty-four boys’ and twenty-six girls’ schools will be reconstructed in district Khyber which were destroyed due to terrorism in the region.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan thanked the Chinese government for collaboration in this important project of re-building of schools.