Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will set up faceless anti-terrorism courts and spend Rs70 billion on the police and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) this year, under a security plan presented at the Governor House in Peshawar on 8 November. Khabr reported the announcement by Governor Faisal Karim Kundi.

According to the plan, Rs59.8 billion will go to the police and Rs10.3 billion to the CTD, with targets set for the first 100 days and a further set for 180 days. The plan includes the establishment of faceless anti-terrorism courts to try terrorism cases.

Governor Kundi said there would be no negotiations with people who reject the state, the constitution and the law and take up arms against the state. He said a zero-tolerance policy against terrorism was in force and that intelligence-based operations would continue, with abettors of terrorists to be arrested through further operations.

Police will receive new weapons and ammunition, while martyrs' packages and salaries will be improved, the governor said. He expressed concern that no police line had yet been built in the merged districts.

The governor also said Afghan soil was being used to facilitate India against Pakistan, and that engaging the province's large youth population in positive activities was a priority. The announcement follows the prime minister's 22 October pledge of Rs160 billion in federal funding for the province's peace and development programme, after emergency rule was imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 11 October.