Uncertainty prevails among official circles and people in Peshawar involved in forest business about the status of ban on forest harvesting in the Frontier province. Ban on forest cutting had been introduced six year back by the last Nawaz Sharif government following devastating flash floods hit Hazara division in 1992. Later, the interim period government led by former caretaker prime minister Moeen Qureshi extended the ban for two years in 1993 and since then it is intact though certain officials of the provincial forest department, while talking to Dawn, challenged its validity and legal position.