Promise In the run-up to May 11 [this year's] general election; Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan promised - if voted to power - PTI will end VIP (very important person) culture in the country. Plan Spelling out in detail the plan to eradicate the deeply entrenched VIP culture, the PTI research wing - Insaaf Research Wing -  in its proposed economic policy for […]

Promise Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) promised on page 49 of its election manifesto 2013 that at least 250 Information and Communications, Science and Technology (ICT) centres would be established in smaller cities to provide basic training to people in the field of Information, Communication and Technology. Background In Pakistan, the ICT sector remains the fastest growing sector economically, despite the […]

The Promise Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, in his speech on July 31, 2013, announced various plans to overcome the energy crisis, including building Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Cholistan, a desert area on 10,000 acres of land in south Punjab. Background Pakistan has been facing a severe energy crisis and electricity shortages for the past several years. The previous government […]

Promise Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), in early August, announced it would bring a White Paper against alleged election rigging. While addressing reporters at a press conference on August 5, in Islamabad, party chairman Imran Khan said that his party would issue a White Paper on August 16 regarding widespread election rigging in the 2013 general elections. Later, PTI changed the date of […]

  Promise Pakistan’s former ruling party, the Pakistan Peoples Party  (PPP), promised on page 5 of its manifesto 2013 that while strengthening the rule of law, coordinated, comprehensive strategies would be devised to ‘Protect the People of Pakistan’. It was further promised that more investment would be made in the police forces, counter-terrorism forces and law enforcement units for each […]

  Promise Pakistan Muslim League Senior Leader and Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said the Planning Commission (PC) would be revived within a year to its statuary form of strategizing and monitoring economic development. “The PML-N government has decided to transform the Planning Commission (PC) into a knowledge-based think-tank to guide the country’s decision-making forum from its current […]

Political empowerment of women – PMLN Promise PML-N promised that it would promote participation of women in national development through political empowerment. [PML-N Party Manifesto 2013 Page 42] The Plan PML-N in Chapter Four of its Party Manifesto 2013, titled ‘New Framework for Social Change’, promised that it would take steps to promote the participation of women in Pakistan’s national […]

The Promise The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) states on page 28 of its election manifesto 2013 that the quota for public jobs for women is to be increased up to 20 per cent. The Plan Shehla Raza, the Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Provincial Assembly (who belongs to PPP), in an Interview with Truth Tracker, reiterated that the quota for […]

The Promise  The leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, Ali Ameen Gandapur, promised during his campaign in the run-up to the May 11 general elections that, once elected as member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, he would re-instate all the 1613 school teachers dismissed from services on charges of being appointed in violation of merit in Ismail Khan. Mr Gandapur reiterated his promise […]

The Promise Pakistan Tehrik e Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan has promised that within five years Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be capable of producing surplus electricity to be provided to other provinces after fulfilling its own requirements. In an interview with Geo TV, Imran claimed PTI was aiming at making Khyber Pakhtunkhwa an exemplary province for other federating units in terms of […]