PTI Manifesto

election manifesto to safeguard Pakistan against corruption

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan urged the nation to stand by him in the struggle to materialise the dream of “one Pakistan”.

“Whenever I gave a call, you never disappointed me. Therefore, today I pledge that I’ll stand by the nation till the last drop of blood,” said the PTI chairman while addressing a big public gathering at the Greater Iqbal Park here. He told the crowd that “it was time to think big, time to change their destiny and time to build a new Pakistan.”

Relating his 11-point agenda that would be implemented if the PTI comes to power, Imran started with education and promised to provide education of equal quality to the children of the rich and poor.

He said it was a matter of concern that 2.5 crore children in Pakistan had no school. He pledged to change the situation all together after coming to power.

2. Health: Imran Khan vowed to introduce a health insurance system modelled on the 'Sehat Sahulat' card in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for the poor across Pakistan under which a citizen could get health facilities to the tune of Rs500,000."

3. Revenue generation: Imran vowed to create a very vibrant system of generating revenue to ensure Pakistan attaining self sufficiency.

4. Corruption: Vowing to empower institutions like National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Imran Khan said that the PTI would ensure country was purged of corruption. Citing the example of 20 MPAs of his party facing corruption changes, Imran said party had complete proofs of their corruption.

5. Investment: Imran termed the overseas Pakistanis the biggest investing potentials for the country and resolved to bring investments into Pakistan.

We will reduce tax on electricity and gas for our industries so that they could compete with Indian market, he said.

6. Employment: Promising the youth much better employment opportunities, Imran said he would especially focus on boosting the tourism industry of Pakistan.

7. Agriculture: Imran said he would impose an agriculture emergency in the country to improve the farm sector and the lives of farmers about whom nobody was thinking seriously. He also promised to protect sugarcane growers from sugar mill mafia.

8. Federation: Vowing to strengthening federation, Imran said the PTI would create south Punjab province as an administrative unit, merge Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) into Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, strengthen local government system and hold direct elections for the slot of mayor.

9. Environment: Imran said environment was a priority on the party's manifesto and 10 million trees would be planted throughout the country to protect the environment. He also expressed regret over the fact that Lahore had been declared one of the most polluted cities of the world.

He also said the PTI would ensure proper cleaning of rivers, canals.

10. Police & justice system: He stressed the importance of justice and the police systems and claimed that like the KP police, the force in Punjab would also win applauds from the nation and would be completely depoliticised.

11. Women: Imran promised to educate women of Pakistan and ensure protection of their inheritance rights.