Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) on Sunday set out a seven-point agenda in its Election 2013 manifesto, outlining national priorities, including pledging to combat extremism and eliminate terrorism, providing education for all, better management of energy, employment for youth, empowerment of women, revival of the national economy by reducing poverty and curbing inflation and eliminating corruption.
PML-Q launched its Election Manifesto under the slogan of 'Building a Better Tomorrow' at a press conference at the Muslim League House here, which was addressed by PML-Q President Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Secretary-General Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed and Chairman of the Manifesto Committee Senator S M Zafar.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain pointed out that the manifesto was based on three basic principles, including truth and 'Kalma-e-Haq'.
He said: "We will always support the oppressed people and oppose injustices", such as the case of the Iraq War, Balochistan situation and Lal Masjid incident.
Other parties, he said, talked about what they would do after coming into power, but his party's track record showed "our performance on various issues proves that we have done (all) that".
As chief minister of Punjab, he said, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi had launched new projects and unique policies and initiatives never before undertaken in Punjab or elsewhere in Pakistan.
The PML-Q, he said, was an ideological party, and "not a personalised party".
He said Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali, Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah "are our role models and we will...move forward fulfilling their mission".
He said his party's manifesto was the only one which carried a portrait of the Quaid-i-Azam and the national flag. He said that his party would only promise what was practicable and "we apologise for what cannot be done".
He felicitated Senator S M Zafar, the Chairman of the Manifesto Committee and his team, for preparing a manifesto which can guarantee bright future of Pakistan.
Highlighting salient features of PML-Q's Manifesto, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that his party "pledges to strengthen democratic values through a human rights agenda which...promotes a just, tolerant and pluralistic Pakistan. It seeks to promote an enterprise culture which develops skills, supports workers and creates jobs, take appropriate steps to increase agricultural products, achieve food self-sufficiency and promotes high-value products for export, ensure free and universal primary education, ensure free and equitable distribution of national wealth...to every citizen, especially the marginalised and the poor; (the party) commits itself to a political will which delivers energy needs of the nation as we are not energy deficient and the energy crisis is due to mismanagement and corruption, and; also commits to combating corruption which has spread like cancer in the society and will punish those loot and plunder".
The PML-Q leaders said that a National Security Council, headed by the Prime Minister, would be constituted, adding that implementation on the Parliamentary Committee's Report of 2005 "will be ensured, a Karachi Emergency Camp will be established, place much needed focus to Pakistan's runaway population growth, a Special Parliamentary Committee will be formed to address all legitimate interests and concerns of free media, comprehensive insurance policy for journalists, photographers and media persons be launched, due emphasis will be laid on ideas, initiatives and implementation for ensuring better results, a National Education Policy will be formulated, a National Commission on Poverty will be constituted, an effective Counter Terror Strategy will be put in place through a lead organisation based in the Prime Minister's Secretariat, a Speedy Justice Action Plan will be prepared, Women's Protection Centres will be established and a Youth Employment Strategy will be formulated.
Mushahid Hussain Sayed said that Religious Minorities Protection Bill will be introduced, a Culture and Arts National Foundation will be established, innovative Lahore Rapid Mass Transit Scheme will be revived, a National Environment Climate Change and Water Resources Authority will be set up and an anti-corruption hotline will be established for the first time in the Prime Minister's Secretariat.
"Poverty reduction is our prime goal while by following modernisation, innovation confidence and tolerance, the PML envisions to transform Pakistan into a fully literate, highly educated, skilled, talented, tolerant, internationally connected and a reasonably well-off and healthy society," he said.
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