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We badly need to gather our thoughts and clear our

minds. We need a political ceasefire without concedin

ideological territory.Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulkar Ali Bhutt

Founder Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples ParPresident and Prime Minister of Pakist


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International human rights instruments and Pakistan 3

Civil society 3

Enorced disappearances and missing persons 3

Strengthening ties with overseas Pakistanis 3

Part III Inclusive and equitable growth Executive summary 3

Living up to our commitments 3

The way orward 3

Poverty alleviation: the Benazir Income Support Programme 4

Peoples employment 4

The right to employment 4

Modernizing agriculture and enhancing production 4

Expansion and consolidation o agricultural acilities 4

Peoples Agriculture Programme 4

Livestock and sheries 4

Investment policy 4

Small and medium enterprise 4

Special economic zones 4

Banking 4

Trade 4

Textiles 4

Part IV Infrastructure for the future Executive summary 4


The way orward 4

Sustainable and renewable energy 4

Inormation and communications, science and technology 4

Urban planning 4

Water security and food management 5

Protecting natural resources, wildlie and the environment 5

Enlarging cultural space 5

Tourism and travel 5

Protecting heritage and culture 5

Sports and community development 5

Core priorities 2Preamble 8 The mission beore us 8


Our pledge to the people o Pakistan 10

Basic principles o the Party 11

Why vote or the PPPP? 12

Part I Ensuring basic needs Executive summary 14


The way orward 17

Saety nets: Benazir Income Support Programme 17

A new beginning: building a system o entitlements 17

Health or all 17

Preventive medicine 18

Curative medicine 18 Regulation o drugs and medical devices 19

National health insurance 19

Reorming medical education 19

Mother and child: building a strong oundation 20

Family planning 20

Access to universal and quality education 21

Power to workers and armers 22

Housing or all 23

Peoples Works Programme 24

Part II Empowerment for all Executive summary 26


The way orward 28

Power to women 28

Mainstreaming and protecting minorities 29

Power to the youth 30

The rights o children 30

Freedom o Expression and the Right to Inormation 31

Contents


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Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream,

and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is formy land and my people to cease fighting and allow ochildren to reach their full potential regardless of sestatus, or belief.

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bh

Part V Towards a new social contractExecutive summary 54


The way orward 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 reorm 59

Civil service reorm 59

FATA reorms: a work in progress 60

Gilgit-Baltistan: sel rule and orward 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 orward 64

Securing Pakistan 64

Internal security 66

Narcotics control 66

Law enorcement and police reorms 66

External security 67

Deence 68

Part VII Engaging with the world Executive summary 70


The way orward 73

Peace, prosperity and stability 73

Regional cooperation and engagement 73

Strengthening bilateral ties and buildingnew relationships 74


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CORE PRIORITIES

Pakistan Peoples PartyParliamentarians: Towards aprogressive, just and prosperousPakistan

Roti, kapra aur makaan

Ilm, sehat sab ko kaam

Dehshat sai mehfooz awam

Ooncha ho jamhur ka naam

The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians have

laid the oundations or a sustainable, accountable

and robust democracy in Pakistan.

We aced down deep divisions and hazards ve

years ago, when a terrorist bullet martyred Shaheed

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. As we shepherd Pakistan

into its rst constitutional transer o power through

elections, we resolve today that we will continue to

make history by using a new elected term in oce

to take Pakistan into a uture based on social justice,

peace and prosperity or all.

Our 2008 term was used to preserve and strengthen

the ederation by building a new social contract or

Pakistan and devolving power to the provinces. We

deployed consensus and reconciliation to navigate

the country through a mineeld o dangers when

others would have collapsed. We strengthened the

democratic system, oten at our own expense. We

built bridges where res were burning, in our hearts,

in our land, and in conficts abroad. The President,

Asi Ali Zardari, voluntarily gave away his own powers

to the head o Parliament, empowering the people

and investing in a uture where the public good

trumps politics. We emptied our jails o all politicalprisoners, including judges. Instead o pursuing the

politics o revenge or the great wrongs done to us,

we have pursued democracy.

In the interest o preserving the independence o

institutions and to prevent the derailment o a ragile

transition, we presented ourselves in the courts o

the law without demur, losing the highest elected

ocials in the land to the wheels o justice. We no

longer even remind people o the jail terms and the

extra-judicial executions this party has aced; today,

the PPPP still stands as the most accountable party

and government in the history o Pakistan. We allow

history to judge us, never running away rom the

judgements that strike at us. We have a trail o blood

and daily sacrice leading to our own homes to show

or it.

We did all this while giving Pakistan its rst non-

partisan, non-politicized social saety net or the

poor and vulnerable, while protecting labour. The

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is

now cited as a model anti-poverty programme in

international development orums. As a strategic

priority, we initiated a large-scale programme or the

empowerment o women at the bottom and top o

the pyramid, making women the centrepiece o our

development, anti-poverty and leadership strategy.

We know our people suer hardships every day as

they bravely ace losses rom terrorism and rising

global ood prices. We know that 60 per cent o

Pakistan is under the age o 30, and that a big

proportion o this demographic needs jobs and

secure utures. We know that our girl children need

to go to better schools, our mothers need more

than a health care unit in every district, and our polio

vaccinators need protection. Our minorities need to

eel secure and proud o being Pakistani.

We aced the hardship o confict and violence

and the ull brunt o natural disasters that killed our

people, swamped our crop, our homes and ourlivestock. In the middle o all this we resettled a

record number o people, in the millions, stricken

by confict and disaster. We put the agricultural

sector back on its eet and made Pakistan a wheat

exporter again. From the bubble economy we

inherited, based on consumer credit, stock market

speculation, property mark-ups, non-transparent

privatization, zero investment in energy security and

infation in double digits, that exposed the people

to local and international shocks, we brought down

infation to single digits, built up Pakistans exports to

unprecedented levels, and attracted the highest fow

o remittances in Pakistans history. And we will go

urther.

Our maniesto is based on the bedrock o ground

realities. We make no promises or which we cannot

nd resources, nor do we plan to rebuild Pakistan

rom the top down through a trickle down o prots.

We believe that national security is premised on

human security rst. Anyone governing Pakistan in

the next ten years o a global recession and regional

security upheavals will also have to make tough

scal, economic, security and governance decisions.

A nation that is economically insecure at the

bottom o the pyramid, capitally uncompetitive and

inrastructurally unprepared stands a poor chance

o survival in a world that is shiting political and

economic gears rapidly.

We have seven core priorities that will protect

and empower the people o Pakistan, and we will

initiate key programmes in 100 days at the ederal

and provincial levels. We will urge all partners in

democracy to do the same in the cause o the

greater national good.

Ensuring Basic Needs o the economically and

socially disadvantaged is a crucial oundation or

building our new Pakistan, and a core priority or the

PPPP. We have always targeted ood security, shelter,

health care, education, jobs, labour protections and

equal opportunity or all. Our ocus in providing socialentitlements has not been about showy buildings

and boom and bust ghost programmes. While we

pursue brick and mortar health acilities in every

district, our primary health care provision has always

been dynamic and globally acknowledged, as in

our Lady Health Workers Programme, which still

orms the backbone o Pakistans primary health

care outreach in the public sector. Going orward

our ocus will be on preventive medicine in the

provinces, and we will launch a fagship Mother a

Child Support Programme which will incentivize

the seeking o reproductive health and health care

services through voucher schemes and direct

cash transers. We commit to polio eradication

as a national priority, integrating it with routine

immunization, and will provide enhanced security

vaccinators. To date, our fagship poverty alleviatio

programme, the BISP, has been ocused on reduc

vulnerability or those most at risk, reaching 18

per cent o our population already. It goes orward

to provide health insurance to the poorest, which

has begun rolling out as the Waseela-e-Sehat. We

will also enrol, educate and make employable a

critical mass o young people every year through

the Waseela-e-Rozgar and Waseela-e-Taleem

programmes. While we build on secure entitlemen

we hope that provincial governments will tighten

belts and provide matching grants or education a

health, as these will be principle responsibilities othe provinces. The PPPP will commit more than 4

per cent o GDP on education by the end o our n

term. Curriculum reorm will be pursued proactive

in order to purge textbooks o hate speech. Shelt

or children, such as those already provided by

the Baitul Maal, will be replicated by provinces in

order to decrease child labour and pull children in

the schooling net. We will seek to bridge the gap

between private and public schooling by building

a National Education Standards Council or all

provinces to coordinate eorts, and look to target

universal primary enrolment by 2018 as guarantee

in the Constitution, along with a pool o 10,000

higher education and technical vocation scholars

every year. Labour too will be given a greater shar

in public enterprise through the BESOS programm

and the minimum wage will go up to 18,000 rupee

per month. Labour representatives will get our se

in the National Assembly and two seats in each

provincial assembly, through legislation. Housing

receive renewed impetus and the poor will be give

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through a transparent publicprivate partnership and

government mandated 20-year mortgage lending.

The PPPP sees the inclusion and Empowerment

o All citizens, especially the marginalized and

the vulnerable, the women, the minorities and the

young and dispossessed, as undamental to the

rights ramework on which our ederation is built.

We will move orward on mainstreaming women,

minorities and the youth o Pakistan by consistently

and incrementally securing and enhancing their legal

and constitutional rights in an increasingly volatile

world. To empower women we will invest in the least

included to become agents o change by providing

them incomes, computerized identity cards to avail

new entitlements, credit lines, opportunities and legal

saeguards. Role models will also eminize leadership

at the top and bring more women at all levels into

decision-making roles. An Equality Commission

will be set up to ensure a Fair Pay and Fair Job

Policy across the board or women and minorities

in consultation with the provinces. The National

Commission on Minorities will be given statutory

status, with a budget and secretariat, and interaith

dialogue encouraged in mandatory inter-provincial

orums. Religious properties will be given protection,

and rebuilt and reurbished, as is underway, in

cooperation with provincial governments. To

mainstream our young people, one o the largest

youth cohorts in the world, they must be provided

opportunities, vocational training and cultural space

or constructive expression o plural identities. As the

most vulnerable members o our society, children

too must be protected against predatory behaviour,

abuse and exploitation. All human rights entitlements

and reedoms which the PPPP has already upheld

and protected, such as the Right to Inormationwhich has been made a undamental right, will be

guaranteed and given stakeholder status in building

a vibrant democracy.

We will revive a globally impacted economy and

invest in Equitable and Inclusive Growth by

launching our own stimulus packages through

a mix o job-creating programmes, bringing

nancial inclusion and extending credit to the

small entrepreneur and armer, launching our youth

employment initiative, the Peoples Employment

Programme, and building new agriculture and

livestock cooperatives powered through women.

We will support our armers by charging fat rates

or electricity or tube wells and providing cheaper

non-middlemen inputs, while leveraging existing

agri-capital by legalizing title deeds. As the Peoples

government, our war against poverty will continue

through an expansion o the Waseela-e-Haq and

other poverty alleviation initiatives like the BISP

across the board, and every household that has

qualied or income transers will be graduated to

an income-earning programme. The BISP monthly

cash payments will be increased to 2,000 rupees

and pegged to infation annually. We will provide a

saety net or small depositors, expand our banking

services, both branchless and commercial, enhance

the SME sector through capacity and access to

credit, invest in milk processing and extend cropinsurance or the agriculture sector. To boost

manuacturing and enhance investment we will

build Special Economic Zones where capital goods

are exempt rom duty, establish a Weaving City

and provide skills development to boost the textile

industry, and build on our unprecedented growth in

exports by investing in manpower exports supported

by training and vocational centres in each major city.

We will boost trade and build on creative currency

swap agreements like those already executed with

China and Turkey, to protect our currency. Our

plan to expand the tax net to 5 million by 2014 will

be operationalized with the use o the NADRA tax

database we built, even i we need to target tax

evaders at the top o the pyramid. We have alreadybrought total debt to within 60 per cent o GDP, and

we will reduce government borrowing to bring the

budget decit to less than 4 per cent o GDP by

2017.

No nation can prosper without investing in

Inrastructure or the Future. Realizing that the

children o Pakistan urgently need inexpensive light

to read by, and that our industries need uninterrupted

power, our existing power programmes will start

kicking in to generate a uel mix o hydel, coal, gas

and renewable energy o 12,000 MW by the end

o our next term, with a reduction in line losses

and higher governance benchmarks to reduce theburden o circular debt. Given our resource base,

we will invest in publicprivate partnerships to build

a web o city-to-town and arm-to-market roads,

linking Pakistan to a web o productive linkages.

We have laid down a new grid o motorways

connecting Islamabad to Peshawar, Faisalabad to

Multan, Gwadar to Ratodero, and urther knitting

the provinces in one transport chain. Sensitive to

the stresses our people and environment ace with

the onset o global climate change and its impact,

triggering natural disaster in our region, and to ensure

that our national resources are used sustainably or

the uture, we will build environmental protections

and conservation incentives, including water security,

into every national and provincial programme. Given

that Pakistan is now the astest urbanizing country

in the region, we will prioritize urban and municipal

governance, address zoning challenges, provide

local transport, increase land supply, and institute

recycled water plants and sewerage as mandatory

or new towns and in phased enorcement or

existing settlements. We will invest in inormation

technology to develop economic and social capital,

create sotware parks, and deploy the expanded

teleco ootprint o Pakistan to meet development and

nancial imperatives or the young and the excluded.

We have devoted our ull resources and ocus to

building a sustainable democratic oundation or thepeople o Pakistan by spearheading a New Social

Contract or the ederation, provinces and people o

this great nation through parliamentary consensus.

Through a series o Constitutional Amendments,

including the 18th, we have transerred key powers

o taxation and governance to the provinces. We will

take this historic process orward by devolving more

power to the people, seeking consensus on local

government as the next step. We have made the

superior courts and election commission o Pakis

totally independent by giving away our powers to

appoint and nominate, privileging our role in poste

in cementing democracy over power. Realizing th

critical importance o better governance and highpublic sector transparency, we will introduce civil

service reorms in consultation with parliamentary

partners. We will go urther in integrating Balochis

into the national mainstream, giving its due rights

on missed entitlements, which has already begun

and by assuaging its legitimate grievances. We ha

given Gilgit Baltistan a new lease o lie and sel-

rule, and given the province o Khyber Pakhtunkhw

its indigenous identity. We have introduced long-

awaited governance reorms in FATA and begun th

process o political mainstreaming, which should

go orward in the uture as a new provincial entity.

We will also move to enhance two seats reserved

or women candidates rom FATA. We have move

orward on our commitment to make a new provin

in South Punjab in accordance with the wishes o

the people to be called the province o Bahawalp

Junoobi Punjab, and we pledge to take all other

constitutional measures to make this province a

reality. As one of the largest megacities of the world

and the countrys port, Karachi will receive a specia

grant in the NFC Award from the federal divisible p

Realizing that there can be no growth, welare,

undamental reedoms or quality o lie without

security and a guarantee o basic protections,

we will strengthen the rule o law and devise

coordinated, comprehensive strategies to Protec

the People o Pakistan. We will invest in the policcounterterrorism orces and law enorcement

units or each province, diverting resources and

human agency to internal security. Federal and law

enorcement measures will be given additional tee

with witness and judges protection programmes,

preventing the resuracing o banned outts and

criminals who eed on innocent citizens. Citizens-


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Police Liaison Committees will be introduced in

every major urban centre. Nationwide campaigns

will be launched in order to reduce the space and

media oxygen or intolerance, and to reverse the

momentum o the extremist mindset. A National

Counter-Terrorism Authority will be redesigned

and placed in the PM Secretariat, which will serve

as a counterterrorism control room or all ederal

agencies. The provinces will be encouraged to set up

their own counterterrorism authorities in coordination

with the centre and all security agencies. While we

continue to successully resettle internally displaced

persons dislocated by anti-terror programmes, we

will use orce where needed and initiate peace talks

only when combatants accept the laws o the land,

the writ o the state and the Constitution o Pakistan.

Our brave soldiers and citizens have aced enough

trauma. We seek to build consensus like we did or

action in Swat. Just as we will disallow terrorists to

rip our fag and bomb our schools, hospitals, shrines

and mosques, we take clear and unambiguous issue

with all encroachments on our air space and land as

violations o our sovereignty, including drone attacks

conducted by oreign governments.

We will intensiy the diplomatic outreach we began

so that Pakistan can Engage with the World as a

responsible nation state and global player in trade

and economic advancement as a strategic priority

or the uture. There has been a constant ocus

on regional peace, security and prosperity as a

pivot or Pakistans relations with the international

community on the same lines, and an aggressive

pursuit o regional networking to give the nation

an edge in leveraging the trade, energy and

communications opportunities emerging today. The

PPPP has also brought about a transormational

shit in the countrys oreign policy by basing it on

public consent and transparency. By bringing all

stakeholders in national security, including public

representatives, into the policy-making process in

Parliament, the PPPP has initiated a robust and

enhanced process o external engagement based on

the principles o equality, mutual respect and benet.

Partnerships have been renewed globally at dicult

crossroads, such as with the US, and enhanced

with old riends such as the Peoples Republic o

China. We have deepened our engagement with

the EU and initiated a policy o sustained dialogue

with neighbours such as Aghanistan, India and Iran.

We will continue our outreach to the Central Asian

Republics, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Middle

Eastern countries. We will pursue the goal o stability

and peace-building in the region as a specic policy

priority without sacricing our diplomatic and moral

commitment to the people o Jammu and Kashmir.

The Pakistan we shall endeavour to remake will be at

peace with itsel, and at peace with the world.

Bhuttoism is an ideology poor. You will cut our hanbut we will raise our flags

will sew our lips, but we chant, Long live Bhutto!

Chairman PPPP, Bilawal

Let us, on this day also resolve todefeat the militant mindset andmake Pakistan a truly welfare driven,rather than security driven, state.

President of Pakistan, andCo Chair Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari


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The mission before usThis Maniesto is our sacred pledge to the people o

Pakistan and, most importantly, to our women, our

youth, our children and our minorities.

Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnahs Pakistan is

ghting a battle or its survival, a battle waged by its

enemies within and without.

Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulkar Ali Bhuttos

Pakistan is ghting with those who perpetuate

oligarchy, injustice and insecurity.

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhuttos Pakistan is

ghting a battle with the orces o darkness and

bigotry.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardaris Pakistan is committed to

ghting as long as it takes to win a war against the

extremist mindset o those who bring suering to the

tolerant majority.

Today, the people o Pakistan are proud to claim that

their elected representatives have completed their

term o ve years. The sovereign will o the people

has prevailed in completing the rst constitutional

and peaceul transiti on, and this is indeed a greatand historic achievement.

At every step we aced hurdles but we successully

averted many conspiracies against the mandate o

the people o Pakistan. Our task ahead is strewn with

challenges but we remain answerable to the people

and the great electorate o Pakistan.

Our Party vowed to restore the peoples rights and

we strengthened the democratic system in ways that

Pakistan has never witnessed beore.

Our Party conronted the divisions in the ederation

and reunited it constitutionally. We lived up to

promises made 30 years ago but our journey to bring

good governance to the doorstep o the people hasonly just begun.

Our Party is laying the oundations or a new

Pakistan. By reraming the social contract the people

o Pakistan have with each other and with the

ederation, we have in real terms devolved power

closer to the grassroots.

The President o Pakistan has voluntarily given up his

powers in order to strengthen and consolidate the

parliamentary system.

Our Party saw its current term as a time to lay

strong oundations or democracy and protect the

democratic process rom derailment. In our next term

we will ocus on making democracy work through

better governance.

Nor did we shirk away rom great challenges: our

Party conronted militancy, terrorism and extremism,

sacricing our own leaders lie in the process. We

now resolve to strengthen our deences so we can

ght to the nish.

There is still a long way to go, with the country

threatened by agents o terror and ignorance, and

the global challenge o rising ood and energy pric

as well as natural disasters triggered by climate

change.

Living up to our commitments

With the popular mandate given to the Party in

the 2008 general elections, both in the national

and provincial legislatures, we were able to orm

a coalition government by keeping every party on

board.

The PPPP contested elections in challenging

conditions and dicult times. We had just lost our

great leader, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto,

who was leading the struggle or democracy. The

people voted or our policies, our struggles and w

we stand or, and we emerged as the single larges

party.

Our reconciliation policy helped us get the leader

the House elected unanimously, while the Speake

and the President were elected with a two-thirds

majority.

Through our Party nominees, oce-bearers and

workers, our government strove unceasingly to rid

the country o structural and deep-rooted problem

that had grown during the decade o dictatorship

Under the guidance o our Party leadership,

the government was able to make great strides

in ullling the promises made to the people o

Pakistan.

The party remains committed to protecting the

citizens o Pakistan. In our current term, we:

Strengthenedthefederationbypassingthe1

Amendment and by negotiating the historic N

Award.

Promotedanddeepenedparliamentary

democracy when the President and Party Co

chairman Asi Ali Zardari gave up his powers

Parliament.

PREAMBLE

We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinctionbetween one community and another, no discrimination between one casteor creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we

are all citizens and equal citizens of one State.

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Address to Pakistans rst Constituent Assembly, Karachi, 1947

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either powermust pass to the people or everything will perish.

Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulkar Ali Bhutto, Central Jail, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 1979

We are prepared to risk our lives. Were prepared to risk our liberty. Butwere not prepared to surrender this great nation to militants.

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Karachi, Pakistan, 2007


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Morethan80percentoftheCharterof

Democracy signed in May 2006 has been

implemented. The Party will also implement the

remaining articles o the Charter.

Launchedthelargestpovertyalleviationscheme

in the history o the country, the Benazir Income

Support Programme. Initiatedlandmarklegislationtopromoteand

enhance the rights agenda, transerring power

and rights to women and labour.

Stabilisedtheeconomyandbroughtdown

infation to single digits.

MadePakistanawheatexporteragainand

stabilized the agricultural economy despite

repeated and unprecedented natural disasters.

Diversiedourenergypolicyandinitiated

renewable energy projects that will come online

during the tenure o the next government.

Introducedaninnovativecounterterrorism

approach that is grounded in the criticalcomponents o political engagement and

economic development.

Madeprogressinthewaragainstmilitancyand

extremism, and united the whole country in

eliminating militancy rom Swat.

Encouragedmoreeffectivecommunication

between intelligence agencies and key law

enorcement personnel.

Enactedkeylegislationthatseekstoidentify,

ban and signicantly hamper the nancing

mechanism o militant organizations.

Soughttoprotectandrehabilitatedisadvantaged

citizens who were internally displaced due to

action by the armed orces against terrorists

seeking to impose their ideology o hate.

PassedtheNationalCounter-TerrorismAuthority

Act 2012.

Framedindependentandmulti-dimensional

oreign policy, ocusing on better relations with

our neighbours and ending Pakistans isolation.

Our pledge to the people of Pakistan

Seeking once again the trust o the people, our Party

renews and arms our commitments to them. For

the next ve years, our pledges to the people are as

ollows. We promise to:

BuildastrongPakistanthatisprogressive,

modern and dynamic.

ProtectthepeopleofPakistanagainstterrorism.

Battleextremismanddefeatitsmessageofhate

by initiating a strong and unambiguous counter-

radicalism policy and promoting a culture o

tolerance.

StrengthenandpromoteShaheedMohtarma

Benazir Bhuttos policy o reconciliation and

inclusion.

Furtherstrengthendemocracybystrengthening

political institutions.

Createconditionsfortherevivalofeconomic

growth and prosperity.

Renewourcommitmenttobuildahopefulfuture

or those stricken by poverty.

StriveforaPakistanwhereall,ratherthansome,

live in comort and plenty.

WorkforaPakistanwhereeveryoneisincluded

in the expanding circle o development.

Fosterajustsocietyfreefromdiscrimination

against women and minorities.

Giveouryouthhopeandastakeinaforward-

looking Pakistan.

Ensurethatournaturalresourcesareused

responsibly and sustainably, with the benets to

be shared with the people.

Developbettersystemsandproceduresfor

disaster management and climate change

mitigation.

Withgreatervigouranddetermination,continue

to introduce historic reorm and implement

policies that secure the basic needs o all

citizens.

Buildaresponsive,responsibleand

representative government at all levels.

Eliminatesocialandeconomicinequalities

between various classes, between Pakistanis

o various religious belies and sects, between

provinces and within provinces.

Helptobringaboutamulticultural,pluralanddiverse Pakistan where the space or civil society

is enlarged and nourished.

Expand,strengthenandenhancefriendshipwith

our neighbours, reach out to other countries,

and promote Pakistans position in multilateral

organizations.

Basic principles of the Party

Islam is our faith, democracy is our politics, social

justice is our economy all power to the people

The ounder o the Party, Shaheed Zulkar Ali Bhutto,

built a solid oundation on which the Party stands

today, promoting democratic rights and social justice

within the context o our own cultural and religious

identity.

Islam teaches brotherhood, love and peace. Our

aith places a responsibility on each citizen to reach

out in a spirit o accommodation and tolerance to

all religions and sects, and to treat people o all

aiths with respect, enabling them to enjoy religious

reedom and equality beore the law.

The politics o our Party has always been led by the

democratic ideal. In every era, PPPP leaders, oce-

bearers and party workers have been thrown behind

bars, sent into exile, and aced political persecution

and torture. They have suered these indignities to

strengthen democracy in the country. The PPPPs

commitment to reedoms and rights can be gauged

by the tremendous sacrices o leaders and workers

alike. The judicial murder o Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed

Zulkar Ali Bhutto, the assassination o Shaheed

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, and the killing, torture

imprisonment o thousands o Party workers have

made us the rontline and oremost deender o th

rights o the people.

The Party has led movements or the restoration o

democracy, remained in the oreront o eorts to

strengthen democracy, and now stands committe

to protect democracy rom those who would see

undermined.

The PPPP aims to ensure social justice and equal

opportunity or all citizens. We are committed to

empowering the weak and enriching the poor

through the equitable distribution o assets and

resources. We are the party that is identied with t

underprivileged, the downtrodden, the marginalize

and those who are discriminated against. We are

voice o the tillers o the land, the workers who to

actories and on arms, and the wage earners wh

construct our roads and bridges. We will continue

speak out or their rights.

While dedicated to improving the lives o the

underprivileged, our policies create space or

entrepreneurship and business to grow so that

opportunities are available to all. We will continue

to work or a just social market economy based o

equity and opportunity, and on healthy partnershi

between the public and private sectors, designed

as a synthesis o economic liberalism with a stron

social democratic agenda o state responsibility o

ullling basic needs: the right to education, to he

to ood, to shelter.

But in the nal analysis, it is the people alone who

have the right to determine their destiny and chart

the course o their country. We must all answer toaspirations o the people through their legitimately

elected representatives in Parliament and in the

provincial assemblies. The Party believes that all

power belongs to the people. This is not a git or

endowment to the people; it is their lawul right.


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Why vote for the PPPP?

The PPPP is the only ederal party in the country,

with historic and growing roots in all provinces and

geographical areas, and among all linguistic groups.

It is the only party that has built bridges and erased

boundaries between people. It is the only party

that is truly ree rom any ethnic, linguistic, class or

gender biases.

It is the only party that can unite the people o

Pakistan as multiple challenges conront us, as it has

done in the past.

It is the only party whose leadership has given

tremendous sacrices to save democracy, to combat

extremism and to promote the rule o law.

It is the only party that has had a clear and rm stand

on terrorism and extremism, and has declared this to

be the oremost issue that threatens our internal and

external security.

It is the only party that genuinely ocuses on social

inclusion, saety nets and poverty alleviation.

Executive summary

The Party has always identied access to shelter,

ood security, health care, education and equal

opportunity as undamental rights or all. Poverty

alleviation and the provision o saety nets or the

economically vulnerable have been core pledges o

the Party. In that spirit, we have ocused resources

to protect the rights o the working classes, and

designed government programmes and social saety

nets like the Benazir Income Support Programme

in our current term and the Lady Health Workers

Programme during our earlier government whichhave been internationally acknowledged or their

outreach, ecacy and scale in adapting to local

needs and providing universally benchmarked

entitlements.

We believe that the government is responsible or

the basic welare o the people. Our fagship social

security programmes address a wide spectrum

o issues that are key to meeting undamental

needs. The Benazir Income Support Programme

(BISP) addresses the vulnerability and needs o

those most at risk, and is designed to service and

empower the poor by reaching out to those who are

doubly disadvantagedthe key 51 per cent o our

population: women.

The scale and nature o the current development

challenge are not insignicant. The children o 9

million BISP beneciaries are unable to attend

primary school largely owing to nancial constraints.

The BISP seeks to address this disability and has,

across the provincial and partisan political board,

initiated a primary education programme or the

enrolment o children aged between 5 and 12 years

rom BISP beneciary amilies. In compliance with

the Partys pledges, the BISP strives to reach the

most disenranchised citizens to upgrade their socio-

economic condition.

We realize that the BISP alone cannot hope to meet

the huge challenge o social development in the

country, and have thereore designed projects that

will harness the resources and energy o the private

sector to partner creatively in our endeavours. We

have invited researchers, experts and academics to

enhance and upgrade initiatives to address emerging

and immediate needs. Given that the devolution

o power has already taken place in key social

ministries like health and education, our Party has

underscored and redened the role o the provinc

in institutionalizing a culture o social protection

through the BISP.

The Party has a clear programme o working

collectively to meet the challenge o providing

quality health care to all citizens. This involvesmore than providing the uninsured a working heal

care option; even those who are insured are not

guaranteed quality and convenient access. Too

many amilies ace the one-variable issue: the ear

that a single episode o illness aficting one mem

o the amily can throw the entire household into

years o struggle and debt. To that end, we have

conceptualized programmes to address a wide

spectrum o health care issues, reorming health

education and certication processes, investing

in preventive medicine, making improvements in

curative medicine, improving the regulation o dru

and medical devices, introducing a national health

insurance policy, and expanding the Mother and

Child Support Programme, a multi-sector initiativethat addresses this vital relationship in the homes

that it reaches.

We believe that education is the undamental righ

every citizen, and a pathway to opportunity, mobi

and the realization o an individuals ull potential.

Every child deserves equal access to education,

and this challenge needs to be tackled on a priori

basis. I we can open the world o schooling and

learning to a child, we have orever broadened

horizons and planted the seed o hope in a young

mind. We believe that education is an essential

ingredient or the important virtue o tolerance. Th

power o education to transorm lives is a truth

terrorists recognize even as they appropriate it, an

so they target our schools and the individuals who

seek to promote the value o education. The 18th

Amendment declares education to be a undame

right, and we will work to train educators around

Pakistan to create and use assessments that can

improve achievement across the country by includ

the kinds o research, scientic investigation and

problem-solving techniques that our citizens need


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Executive summary

The Party has always identied access to shelter,

ood security, health care, education and equal

opportunity as undamental rights or all. Poverty

alleviationand the provision o saety nets or the

economically vulnerable have been core pledges o

the Party. In that spirit, we have ocused resources

to protect the rights o the working classes, and

designed government programmes and social saety

nets like the Benazir Income Support Programme

in our current term and the Lady Health Workers

Programme during our earlier government which

have been internationally acknowledged or their

outreach, ecacy and scale in adapting to local

needs and providing universally benchmarked

entitlements.

We believe that the government is responsible or

the basic welare o the people. Our fagship social

security programmes address a wide spectrum

o issues that are key to meeting undamental

needs. The Benazir Income Support Programme

(BISP) addresses the vulnerability and needs o

those most at risk, and is designed to service and

empower the poor by reaching out to those who are

doubly disadvantagedthe key 51 per cent o our

population: women.

The scale and nature o the current development

challenge are not insignicant. The children o 9

million BISP beneciaries are unable to attend

primary school largely owing to nancial constraints.The BISP seeks to address this disability and has,

across the provincial and partisan political board,

initiated a primary education programme or the

enrolment o children aged between 5 and 12 years

rom BISP beneciary amilies. In compliance with

the Partys pledges, the BISP strives to reach the

most disenranchised citizens to upgrade their socio-

economic condition.

We realize that the BISP alone cannot hope to meet

the huge challenge o social development in the

country, and have thereore designed projects that

will harness the resources and energy o the private

sector to partner creatively in our endeavours. We

have invited researchers, experts and academics to

enhance and upgrade initiatives to address emerging

and immediate needs. Given that the devolution

o power has already taken place in key social

ministries like health and education, our Party has

underscored and redened the role o the provinces

in institutionalizing a culture o social protection

through the BISP.

The Party has a clear programme o working

collectively to meet the challenge o providing

quality health care to all citizens. This involves

more than providing the uninsured a working healthcare option; even those who are insured are not

guaranteed quality and convenient access. Too

many amilies ace the one-variable issue: the ear

that a single episode o illness aficting one member

o the amily can throw the entire household into

years o struggle and debt. To that end, we have

conceptualized programmes to address a wide

spectrum o health care issues, reorming health

education and certication processes, investing

in preventive medicine, making improvements in

curative medicine, improving the regulation o drugs

and medical devices, introducing a national health

insurance policy, and expanding the Mother and

Child Support Programme, a multi-sector initiative

that addresses this vital relationship in the homes

that it reaches.

We believe that education is the undamental right o

every citizen, and a pathway to opportunity, mobility

and the realization o an individuals ull potential.

Every child deserves equal access to education,

and this challenge needs to be tackled on a priority

basis. I we can open the world o schooling and

Part IEnsuring basic needs

Liberty and freedom depend on social and economic justice... Economic development and political

development are surely linked, but both are predicated on guaranteed human rights.Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Indian Wells, California, USA, 2006

learning to a child, we have orever broadened

horizons and planted the seed o hope in a young

mind. We believe that education is an essential

ingredient or the important virtue o tolerance. The

power o education to transorm lives is a truth

terrorists recognize even as they appropriate it, and

so they target our schools and the individuals who

seek to promote the value o education. The 18th

Amendment declares education to be a undamental

right, and we will work to train educators around

Pakistan to create and use assessments that can

improve achievement across the country by including

the kinds o research, scientic investigation and

problem-solving techniques that our citizens need to

compete in the 21st century.

The Party champions the rights o the working class.

We will continue advocating or and supporting

wage earners, actory workers and day labourers.

Farmers and workers in the agricultural sector are

the backbone o the economy. These citizens must

be accorded their due rights and be protected rom

exploitation. Our public works programmes maintainstandards or occupational health and saety, and

we will enhance and enorce anti-discrimination

legislation. We have abolished special powers to

remove employees rom service.

The right to housing and shelter is a undamental

right, clearly enunciated in our Party slogan, roti,

kapra aur makan (ood, clothing and shelter). It is

our stated goal to provide these rights to every man,

woman and child. Housing is essential or personal

ullment and a better quality o lie. Security and

shelter are rights essential or a community to live in

peace and dignity. The PPPP government has taken

a number o important steps to address the housing

situation across Pakistan, and we will build on oureorts in the coming years.

Living up to our commitments

Under our Partys leadership, the government has

worked to ensure that the basic needs o all citizens

are ullled. While acing down the daily threat o

terrorism and militancy, and at the same time tackling

extraordinary economic challenges, the governme

has remained ocused on improving the quality o

o every citizen. Through social security programm

health initiatives and a renewed ocus on educatio

we have demonstrated our commitment and tena

in meeting the basic needs o the people.

The Party pioneered the Benazir Income Support

Programme (BISP), the rst comprehensive socia

security system in the country, which has drawn

unanimous support in the National Assembly and

Senate. Based on its perormance, transparency a

ecient technology-based systems, the BISP has

earned global recognition and donor support and

cited as an example o international best practice

Through the BISP, we conducted a countrywide

poverty census, the rst such exercise ever carrie

out in South Asia. We now have poverty scorecard

which will ensure that we provide subsidies to

deserving segments o society.

Our government provided countrywide counsellin

monitoring and training with the Pakistan PovertyAlleviation Fund (PPAF). More than 20 million wom

have obtained a Computerized National Identity

Card (CNIC), and millions o poor people have be

brought into the ormal nancial sector through th

introduction o Benazir Smart Cards and Benazir

Debit Cards.

Aware o the need to support low-income

households, our government expanded the netwo

o low-price Utility Stores across the country, rom

560 outlets to 5,700. There are now Utility Stores

operating in 34 per cent o the countrys urban

centres and 66 per cent o our rural areas, employ

close to 15,000 workers. We have completed the

groundwork or 2,000 new Utility Stores to startunctioning in the near uture. Our government als

reinstated close to 700 workers who had been

dismissed during the previous regime.

Our government established the Prime Ministers

National Health Complex (PMNHC), which aims

to house seven upgraded unctioning units. The

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the mission to ensure the quality and standard o

available medicine. Under Shaheed Mohtarma

Benazir Bhuttos leadership, we worked successully

in the past towards eradicating polio. Unortunately,

due to misinormation and propaganda by extremist

elements, the disease is on the rise again. Health

workers struggling to immunize children are under

attack rom terrorist organizations. As a result,children as young as 11 months are alling prey to

this crippling virus. Despite these challenges, during

our current term we have worked with international

NGOs and the UN to immunize thousands o children

across the country.

Education has been a central pillar o the Partys

policy to take Pakistan into the uture. For 201213,

the government increased the budget or education

to 7.845 billion rupees, up 196 per cent rom 2011

12. Ater devolution through the 18th Amendment,

strategic priorities and responsibilities or education

and health lie with the provinces. This brings services

to the grassroots level and improves access or

those in need. The ederal government is now onlyresponsible or providing health and education

services in ederally administered areas.

As part o our pro-women policies, we have

enhanced womens representation in top leadership

positions in the education system, appointing six

women as vice chancellors. The government has

enacted several laws aimed at promoting and

strengthening our educational institutions including

the National Deence University Act 2009, NFC

Institute o Engineering and Technology Act 2009,

Pakistan Institute o Development Economics Act

2009, National School o Public Policy Act 2010, and

Shia Tameer-e-Millat University Islamabad Act 2011.

The Cabinet has also approved the establishment oa Federal Law University.

Under our Partys leadership, Parliament approved

a long-standing demand o the provinces to

decentralize the curriculum. Human rights issues

were included in the curricula o all provinces except

Punjab.

The Partys pro-education policies have enabled

over 100,000 young people to receive vocational

and technical training. The government established

a pilot programme that seeks to develop a number

o community centres around the country to impart

skills training to women. Under this trade-tested and

certied programme, we have to date trained 1,300

workers.

The Party has always remained vigilant and proactive

on the issue o workers rights. We more than

doubled the minimum wage rom 4,600 rupees per

month to 10,000 rupees and allowed ull wages

to be paid even to government workers who were

suspended. The government doubled pensions

rom 1,500 rupees per month to 3,600 rupees. The

payment o survivors pensions has been extended,

covering a disabled child or lie and an unmarried

daughter until marriage. We also transerred a 12 per

cent share in state-owned enterprises to 500,000

employees through the Benazir Employees Stock

Option Scheme (BESOS).

Our government extended EOBI coverage to

establishments employing ve or more workers,

besides bringing banking companies and corporate

industry under the EOBI scheme and reducing the

employers contribution rom 6 per cent to 5 per

cent o the minimum wage to acilitate employers in

cutting costs.

Under our government, the Federal Government

Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) has

registered over 20,000 employees to provide them

houses. The Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) has

launched seven housing schemes comprising 1,000

residential units across the country, and entered into

joint ventures or the construction o a urther 2,000

housing units. Pursuant to our Partys slogan, roti,

kapra aur makan, our government announced a plan

to construct one million new houses in its current

tenure. We initiated work on multiple long- and short-

term housing projects in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore,

Peshawar and Quetta. Allotment o plots and houses

on a no-prot, no-loss basis is the rst phase o the

project.

The way forward

Safety nets: Benazir Income SupportProgramme

The Party recognizes that society can only be

prosperous when social mobility is guaranteed and

the working class is empowered as a stakeholder in

development. Our government initiated the highly

successul Benazir Income Support Programme

(BISP), which is now established as one o the largest

and most transparent cash transer programmes in

the world. The BISP provides a stipend to women

belonging to households that are the poorest o the

poor, oering much-needed income support or ood,

clothing and shelter.

We pledge to urther strengthen this programme

and expand the social security system to include

in its ambit the provision o health, education and

livelihoods. Within the BISP are several specic

initiatives aimed at addressing various challenges:

TheWaseela-e-Haqprogrammeassiststhemost

vulnerable members o society by providing

microcredit to promote entrepreneurship.

Successul ventures supported through this

initiative transorm not just the standard o living

o a amily but o the local community as a

whole.

TheWaseela-e-Rozgarprogrammeaimsto

provide ull vocational and technical training to

the poorest Pakistanis, empowering them with

the skills they need to nd work and earn an

honest wage.

TheWaseela-e-Sehatprogrammeunderscores

the idea that a healthy economy requires a

healthy population. It seeks to improve access

to quality health services, reduce income loss

rom catastrophic health shocks and provide

a nancial cushion in case o the death o a

breadwinner.

TheWaseela-e-Taleemprogrammefacilitates

amilies in sending their children to school by

linking BISP cash transers with human capital

development. BISP data show that over 71 per

cent o its beneciaries, aged 512, have neve

attended school. Education is a crucial actor

in the development o any society, and we wi

expand this programme and make it easier o

parents to educate their children.

As we continue on our path o empowerment or

deserving segments o society, we will:

Encourageprovincialgovernmentstoprovide

matching grants in order to urther expand an

strengthen the programme.

Promotethecreationofinstitutionsforspecia

children and children with disabilities, and

provide unds or existing schools and acilitie

or those with special needs.

FurtherexpandthenetworkofUtilityStores

across the country, while re-assessing the

system to increase access and improve servi

delivery.

IncreaseBISPmonthlycashtransfersto2,00

rupees, pegged to infation annually.

A new beginning: building a system ofentitlements

We believe that the achievement o social policy

goals requires not only resources but also eectiv

delivery mechanisms that enable citizens to acces

their undamental entitlements. Our eorts have

made strides in this direction but there is much

more to be done. We hereby renew our pledge to

bring a comprehensive, equitable social protectio

programme to the people o Pakistan.

Health for all

The Party believes that access to quality health

services is the right o each and every individual. W

will endeavour to achieve our targets or the 2013

period through the provincial health ministries by

expanding access and enhancing the quality o

services, as well as through ederal structures or

the regulation, standardization and evaluation o t

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Proposeanincreaseinstatespendingonhealth

to 5 per cent o consolidated government

spending by the end o our next term.

Seekbettergovernanceandtransparent

utilization o earmarked allocations by the

provinces.

Bringaboutarevolutioninhealthcare

by strengthening three o our ormativeprogrammes: lady health workers (LHWs),

mother and child health, and EPI immunization.

Cutmaternalandinfantmortalityratesby60per

cent.

Tacklethroughnewpolicyinitiativestheissuesof

socioeconomic disparity and lack o education,

which are major impediments to achieving

the health care targets o the Millennium

Development Goals.

Takemeasurestostemrapidpopulationgrowth

and bring the population growth rate down to 1.6

per cent.

IncreasecoverageofLHWservicesto100per

cent o rural areas and to urban slums.

Preventive medicine

The main thrust o our health policy on the supply

side will be on preventive medicine. To this end, we

will:

Createspecialdepartmentsorunitstodeal

exclusively with preventive health care and

medicine.

Strengthenprogrammesthatdeliveronthe

ground, including the LHW programme.

Devisestrategiestotacklehighlevels

o communicable diseases including

gastroenteritis, hepatitis, typhoid, malaria,

dengue ever, respiratory disease, tuberculosis

and polio.

Streamlinecommunity-levelservicestocreate

a consolidated programme with adequate

organizational, human and budgetary resources

to deal with preventive care, primary maternal

and child care, immunization, nutrition advice

and delivery, and reproductive health.

Mergepolioeradication,routinevaccination,

LHWs, mother and child care, malaria and

hepatitis control, and amily planning to create

a consolidated and coordinated public health

programme, providing security or vaccinators.

BuildonthesuccessoftheLHWprogramme,

developing well-resourced community-level

interventions to serve as the primary point o

contact between service providers and citizens. Developcommunity-levelinterventionsthat

encompass EPI routine immunization.

Providematernal,newbornandchildhealth

(MNCH) services in every basic health unit (BHU)

and rural health centre (RHC) in each district.

Launchbehaviourchangecampaignsinthe

media, and through community organizations

and Party structures, to protect the population

rom inectious diseases.

Workonaprioritybasistoprovidecleandrinking

water and ensure the proper disposal o sewage.

Introducenutritionsupplementsforchildren,

adolescent girls and pregnant women.

Deploymobilepreventivehealthcareteams

to reach universal coverage targets, especiallyto provide priority coverage to households

identied in the poverty survey.

Ensurethat100percentofinfantsandchildren

under 5 years are vaccinated.

ProcureWHO-certiedvaccinesatcompetitive

rates.

Bringequityinservicedeliverywithgreater

spending or underserved and marginalized

areas.

Eradicatepolioby2015.

Curative medicine

While our eorts in our next tenure will ocus on

preventive health care and medicine, it is equallyimportant to make strategic improvements in curative

medicine. The main approach in this area will be

through improvements in tehsil/taluka, district and

provincial hospitals, with the upgrading o acilities.

We will:

Establishspecialistmedicalcarefacilities

including trauma centres, and cardiac and

nephrology centres at the local level.

Regulate private hospitals through a systematic

evaluation o protocols and medical ethics,

and develop insurance plans or health care

providers.

ReviewthePeoplesPrimaryHeathCareInitiative

(PPHI) and develop stronger publicprivate

partnerships or health care delivery systems.

Improvereferralsystemsfortertiarycare,andintegrate basic and tertiary care, including data-

based linkages between preventive/primary

community-level service providers and basic and

tertiary care delivery.

Introduceaccountabilityofhealthcareproviders

through patient charters and complaint redress

systems.

Decentralizeprocurementtoensuretimely

availability o medicines and supplies.

Regulation of drugs and medical devices

The saety and aordability o medicines and

medical devices has emerged as a major issue in

patient care. Many have lost their lives in tragic

incidents involving the use o ake medications.

We will take urgent action against spurious and

substandard drugs. The Party has already provided

or an autonomous and independent monitoring

commission to improve exports, implement drug

pricing, and assist and enhance our pharmaceutical

industry. In our next term we will:

Developstrongercontrolstocurbquackery

and put an end to the manuacture and sale o

spurious and substandard drugs.

Prepareaformularyofatleast50essential

medications (WHO-recommended) to be

manuactured domestically.

Institutepricecontrolmechanismsforlife-saving

and expensive drugs. Ensuretheavailabilityofaffordabledrugsand

medications, especially those on the essential

list.

National health insurance

The injury or illness o a amily member can cause

major nancial trauma to a low-income household,

oten triggering a cycle o debt and hardship. We w

introduce a comprehensive national health insuran

programme or the underprivileged. Essential hea

service packages will be developed by the provin

with certain minimum standards o service deliver

The Party is in the process o ormulating a regula

ramework or the micro-insurance health sector. Wrealize that without meeting the insurance needs o

low-income households, the health o our citizens

cannot be saeguarded. We anticipate that micro-

insurance oerings will help create a transparent a

enabling environment or increased health insuran

density besides providing aordable health care to

low-income groups.

Micro-insurance health units are most oten based

in the local and social communityvillage, suburb

katchi abadi (irregular settlement)and are there

able to address other important concerns that go

beyond primary insurance services, such as traini

courses on aspects o hygiene and illness. Micro-

insurance health units are also important because

they increase access to health care services, impr

the quality o services, raise awareness o health

issues and contribute to community empowerme

Reforming medical education

We will undertake a strategic review and reorm

o medical education, with interventions aimed at

health proessionals including doctors, pharmacis

paramedical sta, technicians and nurses. This

reorm will be guided by the ollowing objectives:

Increasethenumberofeducationalfacilities

or medical personnel such as primary health

workers, paramedics and physicians across t

board.

Regulatemedicaleducationstandardsinthe

private and public sector.

Promotedegreecoursesinnursinginthepriv

and public sector.

Strengthencommunity-orientedmedicallear

and delivery systems.

Upgradetheinfrastructureofexistingmedica

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Mother and child: building a strongfoundation

We recognize the urgency o providing adequate

health care to the people, especially mothers and

children. The Mother and Child Support Programme

(MCSP) is a fagship health care package developed

by the Party or implementation in the 201318

period. This multi-sector programme is aimed at

mothers and children, starting rom the time o

conception and ollowing through until the child is

o school-going age (5 years). Developed ollowing

broad-based discussions, the MCSP will ocus on

providing health care services to a broad range

o stakeholders. This innovative programme will

be a demand-side intervention to complement

supply-side measures also proposed as part o our

maniesto. Through the MCSP, we will:

Committopolioeradicationasanationalpriority,

integrating it with routine immunization, and

provide enhanced security to vaccinators.

Providecomprehensivesupportintheareasofmaternal, antenatal and postnatal health and

care, nutrition, and preschool education.

Improvematernalandchildhealth,reduce

mortality, address malnutrition, and support early

learning.

Rewardmothersforpro-health,pro-gender-

equality choices, and establish a link between

individual mothers and children with health,

nutrition and preschool services through an

integrated database.

Provideincentivesforanexpectantmotherto

register her pregnancy and to appear or an

antenatal consultation at an authorized health

care acility. Once a case has been entered into

the database, the woman will be provided with

a swipe card which will be used to maintain a

record o her and her childs interactions with

health, immunization, nutrition and education

services, along with cash or voucher incentives

at each critical stage in the 5-year cycle. The

mother will receive a cash or voucher incentive

or each o three antenatal visits, delivery at an

authorized health acility, ollow-up post-natal

visits, amily planning advice, and the entire

cycle o immunization or the child, as well as or

regular health checks or the child in subsequent

years.

Continuetocampaignforresponsiblefamily

planning, and ensure that women have access to

quality health care, amily planning services and

inexpensive medication.

Family planning

Pakistans current population stands at an estimated

180 million, with an annual population growth rate

o 2 per cent, the highest in the region. A rapidly

growing population adversely aects the well-being

o our people by diluting the impact o economic

gains, placing a strain on our natural resources and

contributing to environmental degradation.

Our Party believes that the well-being o the

population is a national priority, and we will ensure

sustained commitment to population issues at the

highest level. To this end, we will:

Bringdownthepopulationgrowthratefromthe

current 2 per cent to 1.6 per cent by 2018.

Implementanacceleratedfamilyplanning

programme in coordination with initiatives

in health, education, nutrition and poverty

eradication, using amily planning sta and

LHWs or a nationwide outreach campaign.

Promotetheideaoffamilyplanningservicesasa

right, and enhance, improve and expand access

to these services through both the public and

private sectors.

Ensurethatallhealthoutletsprovidemandatory

services to increase current contraceptive

prevalence rom an estimated 35 per cent to at

least 45 per cent by 2018, and 55 per cent by

2020.

Enhancebudgetarycommitmentstofamily

planning services both at the ederal and

provincial levels.

Developacomprehensivenationwidetraining

programme or public health service providers

to enable them to oer amily planning services

proactively.

Launchapublicawarenesscampaigntargeting

and engaging young people.

Usetheincentives-basedMotherandChild

Support Programme to reach out to young

mothers to promote amily planning through birth

spacing and delayed rst birth.

Strengtheninstitutionalmechanismstoimprove

service delivery and enhance coordination.In order to ensure eective delivery, district

coordination ocers will monitor and supervise

implementation.

Promotefunctionalintegrationofhealthand

population departments to ensure ecient

service provision.

It is now acknowledged worldwide that ocusing

on girls education and livelihoods or women can

be eective in promoting amily planning. We are

committed ully to promoting girls education and to

provide women air and equal access to jobs.

Access to universal and quality education

Honouring the Partys core commitment to educate

each person in Pakistan, we ollow in Shaheed

Mohtarma Benazir Bhuttos ootsteps to ensure that

every child is enrolled in school. The attack on young

Malala Yousazai is proo that there are orces that

want to hold Pakistan back rom taking our place

among the advanced societies o the 21st century,

orces that ocus their eorts on denying a modern

education to our children.

Education reorms are not merely necessary or

social development; they lie at the heart o Pakistans

struggle or an enlightened, modern, progressive

uture. Our education reorms in the next tenure will

be guided by the ollowing policy principles:

Educationforalltoeliminateclassdivides,

gender disparities, poverty and unemployment.

Everycitizenshouldbeabletorealizetheir

ull potential in society through appropriate

educational and vocational skills.

Combatobscurantismandpromotea

orward-looking national outlook based on our

progressive indigenous traditions and a posit

engagement with science, development and

universal values.

To implement our education policy, we will:

Commit4.5percentofGDPtoeducationbyend o our next term.

Ensureeducationistreatedasanational

emergency. This requires eective planning

and budgeting as well as a holistic approach

to bring about a change in the entire system

o education. It requires the development o

mechanisms or the exchange o inormation

between dierent levels o education, and

measures to ensure access to schooling or a

children.

Putanendtotheabuseoftheeducational

curriculum by removing hate, violence and

reerences to militancy. A comprehensive

review o the curriculum will be conducted

with the addition o subjects like human rightsethics, religious tolerance and community

work as well as instruction in hygiene, nutritio

reproductive health, environmental protection

and sustainability.

Carryoutcomprehensivecurriculumand

academic reorm and, or the rst time, review

and reorm language policy with stress on

both mother tongue instruction as well as

the appropriate introduction o national and

international languages.

Initiatemadrassareformswiththehelpof

madrassa councils to modernize their educat

systems. No militias will be allowed to seek

reuge under the aegis o a madrassa to carry

out militant activities.

Backupconstitutionalmandateswithscal

allocations that prioritize universal basic

education.

Createacellwithinprovincialeducation

departments to monitor, coordinate and

overview district-wise utilization o the educat

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Carryoutasurveyofmakeshiftschools,on-

paper institutions and degraded acilities in

order to upgrade acilities and standardize

quality.

Familiarizeteachersatalllevels,startingatthe

province, with the new curriculum and provide

training or student perormance assessment.

Promotelearning-centredteachingmethodsand the development o appropriate teaching

materials, including through the use o

inormation and communication technology

(ICT).

Putinplaceappropriateassessment,evaluation

and monitoring mechanisms or teachers and

students, starting at the provincial level.

Undertakeanin-depthanalysisofthesizeand

character o the out-o-school population to

ensure their integration into quality schools and

other educational and training programmes.

Strivetorstdiminishandthenremovethe

qualitative gap between public and private

schooling, building a National Education

Standards Council or the provinces to

coordinate their work. Assisttheprovincesinachievinguniversal

enrolment by 2018.

In our next term, we will:

Commit4.5percentofGDPtoeducationbythe

end o our next term.

Takestepstodecentralizedecisionmaking

or the utilization o unds within the education

system.

Signicantlyimprovethequalityofeducation,

ensuring measurable learning outcomes

especially in literacy, numeracy and essential lie

skills.

Intensifyeffortstoincreaseschoolenrolmentand

to lower dropout rates.

Ensuregreatertransparencyandaccountability

in education at the national, provincial and

district levels.

Eliminategenderdisparitiesineducationatthe

primary and secondary levels, especially by

providing incentives or girls to enrol in school

and vocational institutions.

Prepareyoungpeopleforjobsbyproviding

educational programmes specically tailored to

the job market.

Signicantlyimproveadultliteracyratesand

initiate schemes at the district and tehsil levels

with the participation o local communities.

Raisetheadultliteracyratefromthecurrent54

per cent to 85 per cent. Recognizingthatschool-goingchildrenmust

be healthy, initiate an extended health care and

nutrition programme within the school system.

Ensurethatthelearningneedsofallyoung

people and adults are met through equitable

access to appropriate learning and lie skills

programmes.

Power to workers and farmers

Historically, the Peoples Party has always stood

with the working classes and represented their

aspirations. We promise that the Party will continue

to lead the way in advocating advances or our

countrys wage earners, actory workers, armers and

labourers.

We are committed to social justice and we believe

the economy cannot fourish unless workers are able

to exercise their due rights.

Our government has abolished a number o

restrictive labour laws, restored trade unions, devised

a new labour policy, promulgated the Industrial

Relations Act 2012 and withdrawn special powers to

remove employees rom service.

Labour representatives will get our seats in the

National Assembly, and two seats in each provincial

assembly, through legislation.

We raised the minimum wage rom 4,600 rupees

a month to 10,000 rupees, and allowed ull wages

to be paid to government workers who were

suspended. We doubled pensions rom 1,500 rupees

a month to 3,600 rupees, and extended the payment

o survivors pension to cover a disabled child or lie

and an unmarried daughter until marriage.

The Employees Old-Age Benets Institution (EOBI)

scheme was extended to establishments employing

ve or more workers, besides bringing banking

companies and corporate industry under the EOBI

scheme and reducing the employers contribution

rom 6 per cent to 5 per cent o minimum wage to

acilitate employers in cutting costs.

We have expanded social security nets and takenmeasures to protect the working classes. We now

pledge to move orward on these gains, as ollows:

Throughlegislation,givelabourrepresentatives

our seats in the National Assembly, and two

seats in each provincial assembly.

Improvecoordinationatthefederallevelto

address post-18th Amendment issues and

strengthen our position in the ILO, besides

ratiying all ILO conventions.

PasstheTradeUnionsActasanumbrellalawto

address diculties and anomalies in industrial

relations laws.

Constituteapowerfulandmeaningful

commission to ensure the implementation olabour laws, labour policy and ILO conventions

already ratied. We will repeal all laws in

contravention o ILO conventions.

Constructalabourhousingcomplexin

Islamabad and in the provincial capitals, and

set up labour committees at the district level to

resolve labour diculties and disputes.

Enhancesharesupto25percentunderthe

Benazir Employees Stock Option Scheme

(BESOS) and legislate or the removal o section

27B o the Banking Companies Ordinance 1962.

Promotetheregistrationofworkers,including

agriculture and general workers, in trade unions

and improve the unctioning o the Workers

Welare Fund or agricultural and general workers

with the issuance o labour cards. Home-basedworkers, domestic workers, arm workers and

peasants will be allowed to register or social

security ater the appropriate legal mechanisms

are devised. All wage earners in a unit will be

treated as bona de workers o that unit.

ExpandthescopeoflabourlawstocoverFATA,

PATA, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and

Kashmir.

Framelawstosafeguardemploymentand

service conditions, enorce occupational heal

and saety measures, and promote human

resource development.

Furtherenhancetheminimumwageto18,00

rupees per month, with the wage rate to be

adjusted or infation.

Strengthensocialsecurity,theEOBIandthe Workers Welare Fund, and ensure that

workers are registered in these institutions.

The Committee on Labour in the provincial

assemblies will oversee the working o these

institutions and will have the power to decide

complaints and petitions it receives.

Enactspeciallawsforhome-basedand

domestic workers to establish trade unions,

provide social security and a decent wage, an

to end the exploitation o workers by middlem

and employers. We will ensure that the rights

domestic and home-based workers are at pa

with other members o the workorce.

Setupspecialfair-pricecooperativeshops

within the premises o large industrial units an

in industrial areas, where bona de workers w

be able to buy monthly rations and items o

everyday use up to a limit not exceeding their

monthly wages.

Makemaximumresourcesavailableforthe

education and health o workers children.

Promotepublicprivatepartnership-based

labour colonies to provide workers with hous

units and community acilities.

Providespecialincentives,includinglandfree

o cost and bank credit, to private-sector unit

or the construction o housing colonies or th

workers. No new unit employing more than 5

workers will be sanctioned unless a housing

colony or workers is included in the project

proposal.

Housing for all

The housing sector supports economic growth,

boosting the local construction and manuacturin

industry and creating employment. It provides the

best social security and orms the core o our Part

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Payspecialattentiontohousingforthepoor,

and develop schemes through which more

than 500,000 houses will be constructed or the

homeless poor in urban and rural areas.

Provideeverygovernmentofcialwithahouse

on mortgage, paying market rates that include

interest to cover escalating costs.

Engagetheprivateandnot-for-protsectorsas partners in the development o housing

schemes.

Addresstheissuesoflandscarcityandthe

prolieration o katchi abadis.

Throughreformsinthelaw,worktoensurethat

urban areas are revitalized and redeveloped

to meet the challenges o housing a growing

population.

Confrontthecountrysenormoushousingdecit

by promoting the development o housing in the

private sector and ensuring the availability o

properly serviced housing sites.

Improveaccesstohousingnanceandbuilding

technologies, promoting high-density and mixed

land use housing and relaxing taxation and rentrestrictions.

Shelter is a undamental human entitlement that has

remained in the oreront o our Partys investment

in the people. Many needs have been identied and

met in the past but in order to address the growing

housing needs o both urban and rural Pakistan, the

Party pledges to strive or aordable, sustainable and

environmentally riendly housing or all. To meet this

goal, we will work to:

Providehousingforthepoorthroughspecial

publicprivate partnership schemes that will

build up to 500,000 houses or the homeless

poor.

Constructlow-costhousingdevelopmentsongovernment land with a 20-year mortgage acility

to enable low-income households to shit rom

rental to owner-occupied dwellings.

Assisttheunderprivilegedwithpaymentplans,

establishing a government-mandated mortgage

bank to enable banks and house nance

companies to provide long-term mortgages.

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