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Manifesto 2013: Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians Manifesto 2013 We badly need to gather our thoughts and clear our minds. We need a political ceasefire without conceding ideological territory. Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Founder Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Manifesto Manifesto Contents 2013 2013 International human rights instruments and Pakistan 32 Core priorities 2 Civil society 32 Preamble 8 Enforced disappearances and missing persons 32 The mission before us 8 Strengthening ties with overseas Pakistanis 32 Living up to our commitments 9 Our pledge to the people of Pakistan 10 Part III – Inclusive and equitable growth Basic principles of the Party 11 Executive summary 34 Why vote for the PPPP? 12 Living up to our commitments 36 Part I – Ensuring basic needs The way forward 37 Poverty alleviation: the Benazir Income Support Programme 40 Executive summary 14 People’s employment 40 Living up to our commitments 15 The right to employment 41 The way forward 17 Modernizing agriculture and enhancing production 41 Safety nets: Benazir Income Support Programme 17 Expansion and consolidation of agricultural facilities 41 A new beginning: building a system of entitlements 17 People’s Agriculture Programme 42 Health for all 17 Livestock and fisheries 43 Preventive medicine 18 Investment policy 43 Curative medicine 18 Small and medium enterprise 43 Regulation of drugs and medical devices 19 Special economic zones 43 National health insurance 19 Banking 43 Reforming medical education 19 Trade 44 Mother and child: building a strong foundation 20 Textiles 44 Family planning 20 Access to universal and quality education 21 Part IV – Infrastructure for the future Power to workers and farmers 22 Executive summary 46 Housing for all 23 Living up to our commitments 47 People’s Works Programme 24 The way forward 48 Part II – Empowerment for all Sustainable and renewable energy 48 Information and communications, science and technology 49 Executive summary 26 Urban planning 49 Living up to our commitments 27 Water security and flood management 50 The way forward 28 Protecting natural resources, wildlife and the environment 51 Power to women 28 Enlarging cultural space 51 Mainstreaming and protecting minorities 29 Tourism and travel 52 Power to the youth 30 Protecting heritage and culture 52 The rights of children 30 Sports and community development 52 Freedom of Expression and the Right to Information 31 Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Manifesto Manifesto 2013 2013 Part V – Towards a new social contract Executive summary 54 Living up to our commitments 55 The way forward 57 Devolving power to local government 57 Reconciliation, coordination and cooperation 58 New provinces 58 Bahawalpur-Junoobi Punjab 58 Accountability at all levels 59 Judicial reform 59 Civil service reform 59 FATA reforms: a work in progress 60 Gilgit-Baltistan: self rule and forward 60 Azad Jammu and Kashmir: rebuilding lives 60 Part VI – Protecting the people of Pakistan Executive summary 62 Living up to our commitments 63 The way forward 64 Securing Pakistan 64 Internal security 66 Narcotics control 66 Law enforcement and police reforms 66 External security 67 Defence 68 Part VII – Engaging with the world Executive summary 70 Living up to our commitments 71 The way forward 73 Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, Peace, prosperity and stability 73 and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for Regional cooperation and engagement 73 Strengthening bilateral ties and building new relationships 74 my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief. Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto 1 Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Manifesto Manifesto CORE PRIORITIES 2013 2013 Pakistan People’s Party the law without demur, losing the highest elected privatization, zero investment in energy security and care outreach in the public sector. Going forward officials in the land to the wheels of justice. We no inflation in double digits, that exposed the people our focus will be on preventive medicine in the Parliamentarians: Towards a longer even remind people of the jail terms and the to local and international shocks, we brought down provinces, and we will launch a flagship Mother and progressive, just and prosperous extra-judicial executions this party has faced; today, inflation to single digits, built up Pakistan’s exports to Child Support Programme which will incentivize Pakistan the PPPP still stands as the most accountable party unprecedented levels, and attracted the highest flow the seeking of reproductive health and health care and government in the history of Pakistan. We allow of remittances in Pakistan’s history. And we will go services through voucher schemes and direct Roti, kapra aur makaan history to judge us, never running away from the further. cash transfers. We commit to polio eradication Ilm, sehat sab ko kaam judgements that strike at us. We have a trail of blood as a national priority, integrating it with routine Dehshat sai mehfooz awam and daily sacrifice leading to our own homes to show Our manifesto is based on the bedrock of ground immunization, and will provide enhanced security to Ooncha ho jamhur ka naam for it. realities. We make no promises for which we cannot vaccinators. To date, our flagship poverty alleviation find resources, nor do we plan to rebuild Pakistan programme, the BISP, has been focused on reducing The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians have We did all this while giving Pakistan its first non- from the top down through a trickle down of profits. vulnerability for those most at risk, reaching 18 laid the foundations for a sustainable, accountable partisan, non-politicized social safety net for the We believe that national security is premised on per cent of our population already. It goes forward and robust democracy in Pakistan. poor and vulnerable, while protecting labour. The human security first. Anyone governing Pakistan in to provide health insurance to the poorest, which Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is the next ten years of a global recession and regional has begun rolling out as the Waseela-e-Sehat. We We faced down deep divisions and hazards five now cited as a model anti-poverty programme in security upheavals will also have to make tough will also enrol, educate and make employable a years ago, when a terrorist bullet martyred Shaheed international development forums. As a strategic fiscal, economic, security and governance decisions. critical mass of young people every year through Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. As we shepherd Pakistan priority, we initiated a large-scale programme for the the Waseela-e-Rozgar and Waseela-e-Taleem into its first constitutional transfer of power through A nation that is economically insecure at the empowerment of women at the bottom and top of programmes. While we build on secure entitlements, elections, we resolve today that we will continue to bottom of the pyramid, capitally uncompetitive and the pyramid, making women the centrepiece of our we hope that provincial governments will tighten make history by using a new elected term in office infrastructurally unprepared stands a poor chance development, anti-poverty and leadership strategy. belts and provide matching grants for education and to take Pakistan into a future based on social justice, of survival in a world that is shifting political and health, as these will be principle responsibilities of peace and prosperity for all. economic gears rapidly. We know our people suffer hardships every day as the provinces. The PPPP will commit more than 4.5 per cent of GDP on education by the end of our next Our 2008 term was used to preserve and strengthen they bravely face losses from terrorism and rising We have seven core priorities that will protect term. Curriculum reform will be pursued proactively the federation by building a new social contract for global food prices. We know that 60 per cent of and empower the people of Pakistan, and we will in order to purge textbooks of hate speech. Shelters Pakistan and devolving power to the provinces. We Pakistan is under the age of 30, and that a big initiate key programmes in 100 days at the federal for children, such as those already provided by deployed consensus and reconciliation to navigate proportion of this demographic needs jobs and and provincial levels. We will urge all partners in the Baitul Maal, will be replicated by provinces in the country through a minefield of dangers when secure futures. We know that our girl children need democracy to do the same in the cause of the order to decrease child labour and pull children into others would have collapsed. We strengthened the to go to better schools, our mothers need more greater national good. the schooling net. We will seek to bridge the gap democratic system, often at our own expense. We than a health care unit in every district, and our polio between private and public schooling by building built bridges where fires were burning, in our hearts, vaccinators need protection. Our minorities need to Ensuring Basic Needs of the economically and a National Education Standards Council for all in our land, and in conflicts abroad. The President, feel secure and proud of being Pakistani. socially disadvantaged is a crucial foundation for provinces to coordinate efforts, and look to target Asif Ali Zardari, voluntarily gave away his own powers building our new Pakistan, and a core priority for the universal primary enrolment by 2018 as guaranteed to the head of Parliament, empowering the people We faced the hardship of conflict and violence PPPP. We have always targeted food security, shelter, in the Constitution, along with a pool of 10,000 and investing in a future where the public good and the full brunt of natural disasters that killed our health care, education, jobs, labour protections and higher education and technical vocation scholarships trumps politics.
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