Promise Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has promised to weed out Pakistan’s culture of nepotism for good and introduce a merit-based system in the country. The prime minister made this promise while speaking at a function in connection with the newly-launched Prime Minister’s Youth Business Loans scheme at Hyderabad in Sindh province. Background In Pakistan, most political parties and regimes […]

  The Statement Cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of the Pakistan Tehrik-Insaaf, Imran Khan, said that successive governments have been using the top slot of Pakistan Cricket Board’s chairmanship as a means of political patronage and rewarding the cronies, including the incumbent chairman of the Board  - Najam Sethi. Background Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Najam Sethi, a senior journalist and anchorperson with a leading […]

Statement Leader of the Opposition in the Pakistan’s National Assembly has said that the government had “struck a deal” with former military strongman Parvez Musharraf which would see him leave the country without getting tried in courts for the Oct. 1999 coup or Nov. 2007 Emergency. “The government has seemingly struck (a) deal with Musharraf,” said Khurshid Shah, leader of […]

Promise In the run-up to May 11 general elections, Pakistan Muslim League (N) promised that after coming into power the party would decrease borrowing from banks, rates of taxes and minimize direct taxation to reduce the burden on the general public. Unveiling the PML-N manifesto at Lahore Press Club and launching the party election campaign, the party chief and incumbent […]

The Statement Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl), has said that political leadership in Pakistan is powerless as the real power rests with the powerful establishment. This is a veiled reference to the security establishment of Pakistan. The Maulana gave these remarks on November 12 while speaking to a local newspaper in Islamabad. Background On Nov. 1 of this year, a […]

Promise Pakistan’s prime minister and chief of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party, Mian Nawaz Sharif, while attending a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at his Jati Umra residence, said that his party, the PML-N, would support all flood victims at this difficult time. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the PML-N would not leave a single flood-affected person […]

Promise During the 2013 general elections campaign, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan promised that if voted to power, his party PTI would eliminate corruption within 90 days. The Plan PTI’s Pervaiz Khattak, chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, endorsed the party policy and claimed he would eliminate major corruption within 30 days while talking to the Express News on June 03, […]

Promise Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a promise before General Elections 2013 that his party would strive to eventually provide a house to each Pakistani family through a public-private partnership. He made this promise at a press conference for the unveiling of his party’s Manifesto 2013. Background The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, under its 1996 United Nations Habitat Conference, recognised “Adequate Shelter […]

Promise Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif promised that he would bring the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) into the country’s political mainstream. Plan Addressing a press conference before elections while unveiling PML-N Manifesto 2013, Premier Nawaz Sharif pledged to counter militancy and extremism by ensuring health, education and other facilities in the FATA and PATA if voted to […]

Promise “A dynamic National Youth Policy will be implemented,” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif promised while announcing PML-N’s manifesto 2013 before general elections. The promise is in the party’s election manifesto on page 44. Plan Sharing his plan at a press conference, Nawaz said that the youth policy would be implemented through a skills development program which would create one million […]