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Pakistan
Peoples Party
Manifesto 2002 |
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For a Just, Equitable and Egalitarian Pakistan
Released on September 30, 2002
PREAMBLE
Born through the ballot, Pakistan overcame the bullet to become
the homeland of the Muslims of South Asia. The great founder of
the country, Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, fought for a free
Pakistan where all its citizens could be equal before the law enabling
them to reach the heights of economic empowerment.
Quaid e Azam’s death robbed Pakistan of a towering personality.
It fell prey to the conspiracies of the unelected power brokers
in the military and bureaucracy. They intrigued to rob the Pakistani
people of their democratic rights and to re write history.
The torch of Quaid e Azam was passed to the Quaid e Awam who picked
up the pieces of the Country after the shameful surrender in the
fields of Dacca. The country began to prosper with reforms benefiting
the downtrodden and under privileged.
MILITARY CLIQUE
But the military bureaucratic complex continued to conspire. It
took advantage of international concerns about Pakistan’s
nuclear program to kill democracy and the democratic leader.
The workers of the Pakistan Peoples Party, its democratic allies
and the people confronted the dark night of terror to save freedom,
fundamental rights and the economic emancipation of the downtrodden
people.
Consequently, elections were held in 1988. Tragically, the full
transfer of power failed to take place. The military leadership,
which had now taken power even from the bureaucratic class, destabilised
the elected and representative governments of the people. They fought
with their own handpicked premiers as well as with the choice of
the people showing an inability to share power or keep the national
interest before them.
Once again the spectre of dictatorship rose on the horizon. Having
seized power through the bullet, the dictatorship is now seeking
to institutionalise dictatorship.
FREE WILL OF THE PEOPLE
The new weapon against the people of Pakistan is the rigging of
General Elections. This is done through computer hacking into the
Election Commission computers where results are changed through
virtual cast of bogus ballots.
The rigging of elections has robbed the Pakistani people of hope
in the ballot, which created Pakistan, as a redeemer. Unless this
hope is recreated, the malaise will deepen.
PPP electoral Reform Package addresses the issues of enfranchisement
of the people through transparent electoral process.
ELECTION GUIDELINES
Pakistan Peoples Party election proposals include guidelines to
restore to the public the sanctity of the ballot without which the
forces of freedom, of fundamental human rights and economic emancipation
will continue to elude the country of the means to advancement.
PEACE
The oppressors of the people used religious parties as well as the
strategic location of Pakistan to exploit international opinion
in a bid to gain legitimacy. Their politics gave birth to violence
and the kalashinkov culture.
An earlier military dictator used Afghanistan’s critical importance
to the world community to perpetuate his own dictatorship. Now another
military dictator is attempting to use Afghanistan to perpetuate
himself at the cost of the fundamental and human rights, including
economic rights, of the people of the Federation.
The concentration of absolute power is detrimental to the welfare
and prosperity of the Federation. It threatens to give birth to
ethnicity, poverty and violence. It threatens to make Pakistan another
Yugoslavia. Every patriotic citizen must rise up to support the
PPP Parliamentarians in saving Pakistan from an unfortunate fate.
The former Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of military dominance.
Other countries collapsed under the weight of civil war leading
to massive bloodshed played out on international television screens.
To save Pakistan from such a calamity towards which the absolute
concentration of power threatens to lead the Nation, we can remember
the words of our great leader Quaid e Azam.
He said, “Pakistan must seek peace within and peace without”.
The PPP Parliamentarians pledges to give Pakistan and the region
“Peace within and peace without” with honour and dignity.
RELIGION
The message of Islam is the message of Peace. It is a message of
brother hood and love. The holy saints in the valley of the Indus
preached a message of love and compassion. These are symbolised
in the words and verses of Data Sahib, Shah Abdul Latif of Bhittai,
Baba Farid Ganj and Lal Shahbaz Qalander.
The sufi saints adopted simple means of living and high thinking.
Its time we did the same.
The PPP Parliamentarians commits itself to religious tolerance.
Religious beliefs of individual citizens have little to do with
the business of the state.
TERRORISM
Terrorism was born in the bowels of dictatorship which recruited,
trained, armed and financed extreme factions while marginalising
the moderate, democratic and pluralistic forces.
History teaches us that democracies don’t go to war with each
other and democracies don’t promote international terrorism.
The best guarantee of a safe and secure Federation is in the values
of freedom, fundamental rights and economic empowerment of the people
with checks and balances that end concentration of power.
Dictatorship relabelled can only play into the hands of the underground
militants and extremists who today are regrouping in Pakistan which
witnessed terrible suicide bombings that shook the Nation and its
markets causing greater economic impoverishment.
PPP is proud to have given Pakistan stability and the writ of the
state in all its governments making the safety of citizens its top
priority. It can do so again.
POVERTY
The overthrow of the PPP government in 1996 led to the impoverishment
of the people of Pakistan. For the first time in recorded history,
mass unemployment reached such heights that people chose to commit
economic suicide because they were unable to feed their families.
A country which under the PPP became one of the ten emerging capital
markets of the world, attracting massive foreign investment became
a barren landscape. Investors fled from the country as they were
unjustly scandalised in politically motivated allegations by hostile
regimes seeking to score political points.
The bill was picked up by the unfortunate people of the country
whose per capita income fell as the gap between the rich and the
poor widened.
The PPP had revenues to build schools, hospitals, roads and provide
people with basic amenities. The regimes that replaced it froze
foreign accounts, raised utility bills, retrenched hundred of thousands
of employees without any benefit to the country. They brazenly cut
the budgets that the PPP so painstakingly built for important programs
that included education, health, women’s empowerment, youth,
population control, labour and the rural poor. They did this even
as they hired favourites at exorbitant salaries paid in advance.
The PPP Parliamentarians pledges to eradicate poverty by ensuring
that the social sector budget is increased as is the Annual Development
Plan. It is by investing in our young people that we can build a
progressive and prosperous society.
DEBT
The PPP was honoured to retire one billion dollars of Pakistan’s
mountain of debt that crushes its people and makes it a dependent
Nation. It’s the only government that ever retired capital
debt.
Regimes squandered opportunities that arose where Pakistan, like
Egypt and Jordan could have got the debt written off.
The PPP always took power after rulers signed agreements with international
financial institutions locking it into pre fixed frameworks. As
soon as the PPP strengthened the economy enabling it to negotiate
a better deal with the international financial institutions, it
was overthrown by the anti people forces.
Now the time has come for the people of Pakistan to support the
PPP Parliamentarians with a two-thirds majority to enable it to
continue its reform process to liberate the people of Pakistan from
the shackles of poverty, debt and servitude. It is PPP Parliamentarians,
and PPP Parliamentarians alone, which can give the country honour,
dignity, respect, hope, peace, progress and prosperity.
ECONOMICS
The PPP government presided over boom economies during its three
tenures in office. Sound macro economic management allows private
entrepreneurs to build investment, trade and develop the economy.
The PPP tripled growth rates and doubled the national revenues while
enjoying lowest deficit figures and bringing in massive investment
which created jobs and promoted the service industry including housing.
As the party that introduced the privatisation bill and streamlined
the revenue services while creating boards at local bank branches
for quick disbursement of loans, the PPP is committed to the free
flow of capital. The flow of capital is the engine that drives a
growing economy encouraging the youth while ending unemployment
which brings misery.
PPP introduced an autonomous State Bank and a strong regulatory
authority is necessary to safeguard the deposits of the working
and middle classes in the banking sector. The seizure of foreign
exchange reserves and collapse of cooperatives as well as investment
companies when PPP was in Opposition robbed ordinary citizens.
PPP power projects, mass telephone system enabled ordinary people
to set up businesses when previously power shutdowns and twenty
year waiting lines for phone prevented them from success in private
initiatives.
PPP focuses on making the changes that help people make successful
businesses. PPP times are boom times for the business communities
as well as for the labour that is absorbed by a booming market.
To support middle class purchases a Pay As You Earn Scheme (Credit
Purchases) will be adopted in Government Corporations and other
salaried institutions. A credit bank will be established the purpose
of which will be small and medium loans to encourage instalment
purchases of television, furniture, cars, houses, refrigerators
and other household and daily life necessities which are too expensive
for outright purchase by young and middle age purchasers. This scheme
will be expanded to include non-salaried institutions gradually.
Open Minds, Open Markets, Open opportunities is our slogan as we
change IOUs into MOUs.
A PPP Parliamentarians government is necessary for sound macro management
as well as for investment, revenues, growth, employment and safeguarding
the savings of the people.
EDUCATION
Our great martyred leader, the Quaid e Awam, believed that education
was the key to empowerment of the people. He introduced free and
compulsory primary education, promoted centres of excellence, created
Institutes of Science and Technology and took Pakistan to the cutting
edge of nuclear physics establishing centres of nuclear medicine.
He set up a chain of new Universities, Medical and Engineering colleges
in the neglected areas as a harbinger to a Muslim renaissance.
Western countries developed by encouraging free debate in universities
of excellence which produce the men and women needed to govern great
nations.
Textbooks to government primary schools will be provided free of
cost while a means test will make students eligible for additional
government support. Libraries will be promoted and vocational centres,
on the pattern of the Computer Literacy Program, enhanced.
Internet access for government schools will enable the children
of the underprivileged to access the worldwide information highway.
The global language, English, will be an optional language for students
to study preventing lingual apartheid where children of the rich
speak English competing for world wide jobs and children of the
working classes are denied that opportunity.
Seeking an age of reason and enlightenment, the PPP, which increased
with extra billions education budget in its two recent terms of
power, pledges to make education a top priority. It is education,
and education alone that can enable our young people to realise
their full potential and compete with the best that the world can
produce in the field of art and science.
PPP Parliamentarians commits to its sons and daughters an education
that enables a brighter future than that of their parents so that
they can hold high their head in the comity of Nations.
YOUTH FORCE/KHADIM E DANISH
Youth are the future to whom the torch passes. In developing our
children, we strengthen the foundations of our society. Involving
youth in good, productive activities grooms them with a higher moral
mission to serve humanity. Establishment of a Youth force, similar
to the Lady Health visitors scheme, can assist in education, literacy
and health enhancing literacy rates and creating social awareness.
Overseas Youth can be part of the youth force creating links between
expatriate community and the foreign born new generation with their
country of origin even as skills promote community welfare.
Sports training will be encouraged as well as holding of sporting
tournaments.
INTERNET
The PPP heralded the information age into Pakistan with colour television,
fax machines, e-mails and satellite television. It laid optic fibre
lines in 1989 to promote internet connections and digitalise telecommunications.
In 1993 it began computer literacy programs to herald the computer
literate generation.
PPP software parks in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore will be revised.
The state will actively equip the citizens to meet the demands of
the future. It will give incentives for software development as
well as hardware development. A special credit facility will be
available for outstanding students to develop ideas in the field
of artificial intelligence and the computer age. The government
will supplement ordinary libraries with computer libraries and internet
access.
HEALTH
Having eliminated polio, iodised salt and inoculated children in
deadly diseases, the PPP pledges investment in health. Its previous
health policies won it the World Health Organisation Gold medal.
PPP aspires to win more medals for health for our people believing
that health is wealth. It increased health expenditures in the past
seeing in a healthy body a healthy society. Elimination of lead
poisoning and other simple measures can improve the quality of health
with small initiatives quantifying into big results.
PPP Parliamentarians will improve government health centres and
hospitals. It will establish Old Peoples Homes as well as Homes
for Poor Children to aid and assist families that find such issues
challenging.
RULE OF LAW
The basis of a civilised society lies in the rule of law. In developed
countries, those who undermine the majesty of law go to prison.
In our country too often the victims of those who perpetuated injustices
went to prison. Each elected leader of Pakistan left office brutalised
and criminalised while none of the military dictators paid a price
even when they disintegrated the Nation and cannibalised the Constitution.
When the state apparatus perverts the course of justice, evil consequences
flow which undermine the premise on which civilised society can
be based.
It is to lift the lid on state sponsored perversion of justice and
perjured statements obtained through torture which involved criminalising
of the very custodians of law that the PPP Parliamentarians proposes
Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The purpose of the Commission
is to acknowledge victims of political injustice who fell prey to
state sponsored perversion of justice to meet the ends of an unholy
agenda to destroy trust in public representatives and promote militarism
of society.
JUDICIAL RELIEF
Easy dispensation of justice is the right of citizens. Too many
suffer because of inability to access justice.
Innocent people languish in jails without the funds to obtain judicial
relief. Each High Court will appoint Judicial Ombudsman to visit
Jails and Thanas providing relief to those deserving it.
Number of courts will be increased as well as number of judges to
ensure that cases are dealt with expeditiously.
Special courts will be abolished.
Law of foreclosure will be examined in discussion with the Judiciary.
It is strong foreclosures in developed countries that enables the
middle classes to obtain credit for purchases such as apartments,
cars, televisions and similar products where lenders know that defaulters
can be taken to task without a stay order.
Small Causes Courts and Family Court at the local bodies' level
can assist fair and easy justice.
More women and minority judges will be inducted into the judiciary.
CONSTITUTIONAL PACKAGE
To fulfil Quaid-e-Azam and Quaid-e-Awam’s dream of a Federal
and democratic Pakistan where the provinces enjoy full autonomy,
the Concurrent List will be abolished in keeping with the Constitutional
commitments.
The establishment of a Constitutional Court will be examined in
consultation with the Pakistan Human Rights Commission as well as
other bodies.
Tenures of District Councils will be fixed and free from interference
other than through the judicial process to establish a pluralistic
society where different parties can exercise power at different
levels. Simultaneously preventing a culture of exclusion and winner
takes all. This can enhance tolerance and accommodation within the
body politic of the country.
Election Commission will be constitutionally protected although
its actions can be scrutinised through appeal to high courts. Election
Tribunal cases must be decided expeditiously.
CLOSED PARTY LIST SYSTEM
PPP Parliamentarians supports technocrat and Women’s seats
on closed Party system. The system of Open Party List System is
untenable in a country where literacy rates are low. Moreover ballot
papers will become books as each party nominates scores of candidates
that voters must scan and mark with differing symbols.
SENATE
PPP Parliamentarians supports the election of the Senate members
by provincial assemblies through open single transferable vote.
CORRUPTION
The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians supports an independent
and impartial anti corruption office to investigate every citizen
of Pakistan irrespective of the office that he or she may hold.
The anti corruption body will conduct itself according to the universal
principles of due process rather than become a handmaiden of hostile
regimes against political opponents.
CENSUS
An accurate census is essential to good planning. The census held
previously will be examined by a Commission to see whether it met
the test of accuracy given strong complaints made about its findings.
PPP Parliamentarians will hold timely census and ensure that the
census results are accurate enabling resource distribution equitably
in the country considering citizens of different provinces as equal
Pakistanis.
HUMAN RIGHTS
The plight of women, minorities, children and the wretched of the
earth is miserable. It is a deep stigma on our national conscience
that disadvantaged groups suffered a series of punishments, laws,
public humiliations and gang rapes while the state watched helplessly.
The PPP Parliamentarians pledges to protect the minorities, women
and children of Pakistan. It pledges to protect the weak from the
strong. It pledges to undo laws that are discriminatory against
minorities, women and children. It calls upon the people of Pakistan
to give it a constitutional majority to build a society where the
weak and underprivileged are freed from archaic state laws.
The PPP Parliamentarians pledges to promote universal female literacy
and protection of the child to honour our women and our future generations.
The PPP Parliamentarians will encourage non governmental organisations
as watchdogs for the empowerment of women and minorities.
POLICE REFORMS
The independence of the Police system will be encouraged enabling
the Police force to groom a professional body which is tough on
crime and criminals. The unfortunate history of political taint
which demoralises the police force and oppresses the citizen will
be done away with. Police will be treated on par with military officers
and entitled to similar benefits. A strong and professional police
force is necessary to combat the forces of internal terrorism.
Use of torture will be prohibited and police training institutes
upgraded with modern means of forensic evidence and interrogation.
Local recruitment of the police force will be encouraged with matriculation
as a minimum qualification.
Allegations of torture and corruption will be examined by a Police
Ombudsman appointed by the Inspector General of Police.
PPP Parliamentarians prison reforms aim at reforming prisoners enabling
them to integrate into society as responsible citizens. Concept
of hard labour is outdated and can be abolished. Prisoners will
be encouraged to take classes to learn skills and earn points towards
good behaviour early release. They will be paid proper wages for
work undertaken and be entitled to purchase facilities for themselves
including television, computers and other products. Communal rooms
will provide internet access to selected sites as well as reading
material in libraries which is commensurate with modern publications.
Exercise classes will be held separately for men and women prisoners
for those wishing to avail of it. Medical attention will be given
promptly. Proper seating arrangements for interviews will be made.
Prisoners will have the right to make available transport for going
to court hearings in the event of vehicle shortage.
Presently prison administration is a prisoner of the home secretary.
Prison administrations will be given rules within which to function
and will be autonomous in their functioning. Complaints by government
or prisoners can be made to the Home Secretary and officers which
will be reviewable before the judicial authorities. Postings to
prisons will be by tenure and officials transferred earlier only
on the basis of written complaints which can form basis of a discrimination
appeal.
Female prisoners will be housed in separate quarters and looked
after by female staff. No male staff will be permitted entrance
to the female quarters. Female quarters will have similar facilities
as male quarters with additional child care areas.
LABOUR
Created as the Party to protect Labour rights, the PPP introduced
the reform for minimum wages, cost of living, social security, medical
cover, old age benefits, pensions and other such measures for the
betterment of the working classes.
The PPP is proud of its record where Labour rights were fully protected.
PPP Parliamentarians opposes retrenchment of Labour. It pledges
to hold high the banner of Labour rights with a view to ensuring
that Labour enjoys a good working relationship with the government
while enhancing productivity.
PPP Parliamentarians is opposed to contract labour as well as retrenchment
of labour. It supports wage increases for labour given high rates
of inflation. It supports laws in accordance with the International
Labour Organisation.
Review the situation with a view to providing relief to retrenched
workers. Additionally use Labour welfare funds to build residential
colonies for workers. Establish cadet colleges for children of labor
force.
FARMERS
The vast majority of the people of the country are farmers eking
out an existence in challenging circumstances where water is in
shortage.
It is the job of government to ensure that the farmers get a good
deal for their hard work.
The PPP government ensured a farmer friendly policy which gave the
country high growth rates and productivity with yields going up
from zero per cent to seven percent. The Awami tractor scheme providing
tractors at one and a half lacs was part of the initiative that
helped farmers for which the anti people forces implemented false
cases against PPP leadership.
The PPP Parliamentarians pledges to look after the farmer with timely
inputs of fertilisers, seeds and water. It promises to give the
farmer his due where prices are concerned and relieve him from poverty
through appropriate access to credit.
The threat of water logging and salinity will be countered with
greater resource commitment by the government and the completion
of canals to serve that purpose. Small hydel dams begun under the
last government will continue.
Shortage of drinking and agricultural water is the greatest challenge
in the twenty first century which will be met through the close
cooperation between government, farmers and technical experts.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The PPP Parliamentarians is committed to devolution of power in
accordance with its new social contract.
It supports constitutional terms for district governments. It supports
district governments which are independent of the Federal authority
and have access to an appropriate and independent fiscal base within
the parameters of provincial autonomy.
MEDIA
The twenty first century is the century of transparency and openness
and of a free press. Ministry of Information will be abolished.
Each Ministry’s press department can liase with the public
on issues relating to it. Journalists from private sector will be
eligible for induction on contract basis and on competitive market
rates.
Elected Press Bodies will be asked to establish a Complaints Commission
on the basis of the British system of Press Complaints.
Private sector can freely establish television and radio stations
without government permission subject to operating within a legal
framework.
A free and vibrant press is the greatest guarantor against tyranny
and oppression.
DEFENCE
The PPP gave Pakistan a strong defence to safeguard its territorial
integrity and national independence. The Quaid-e-Awam gave Pakistan
the nuclear program to achieve nuclear parity with India. Mohtarma
Benazir Bhutto gave Pakistan missile capability to enable the country
to match the Indian missile threat.
The PPP Parliamentarians believes that a sound economic base promotes
a strong defence. It seeks to identify Pakistan’s core defence
needs to enable the country to meet its defence targets.
The PPP Parliamentarians opposes waste and extravagance through
non audited accounts and re-appropriation of budgets. It plans putting
in place a parliamentary committee to inspect defence accounts which
will also be submitted to the defence committee of the cabinet.
Concerned about corruption in defence deals, the PPP Parliamentarians
plans greater transparency in defence purchases and a rationalisation
of defence expenditure to make the armed forces fit and professional
as they were before the military dictatorship of General Zia in
discharging their core responsibility of defending the territorial
integrity and frontiers of Pakistan.
The educational curriculum in defence institutes was prepared to
train an officer cadre that could uphold the forces of military
rule. That curriculum will be revised to ensure military respect
for democracy, democratic institutions and elected officials. The
true face of military dictatorship will be open in courses to encourage
officers to prevent the past with a view to building a better future
in accordance with the principles of Quaid e Azam.
FOREIGN POLICY
The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians opposes terrorism and
will continue the policy of the present regime to ally itself against
the forces of terror.
The PPP Parliamentarians supports the right of self determination
of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It supports the creation of
a Palestinian state which gives security to the Palestinians.
THE PPP PARLIAMENTARIANS SEEKS GOOD NEIGHBOURLY RELATIONS
WITH ITS NEIGHBOURS
The PPP Parliamentarians, without prejudice to the UN Security Council
Resolutions, supports open and safe borders at the Line of Control
to socially unite the Kashmiri people. It notes that India and China
have a border disputer and yet enjoy tension free relations. It
seeks to reduce tensions with India through peaceful negotiations
to outstanding Disputes and issues.
The PPP Parliamentarians supports a South Asian Free Trade Zone.
It believes that such a zone can enhance markets and job opportunities
as well as enable the South Asian countries to formulate consensus
views for World Trade Organisation and other international bodies
that are coming into being to ensure that they are supportive of
the rights of the people of South Asia.
The war against terror focuses attention on the danger of rogue
elements accessing nuclear systems of countries with inadequate
command and control systems. The nuclear control and command centres
as well as nuclear safety measures will be ensured by the PPP Parliamentarians
government to allay international fears and safeguard the nuclear
assets.
PPP Parliamentarians will continue to cement and enhance relations
with Pakistan’s traditional friends.
PAKISTAN EMBASSIES AND GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONARIES
Pakistan Embassy staff and government functionaries will be given
consumer friendly courses to train them in meeting the demands of
the citizens with courtesy. Too often the staff in the embassies
and offices are viewed as masters rather than facilitators of the
public. This will change as the colonial training is shed for modern
citizen dealing.
CONCLUSION
Faith, Freedom, Fundamental Human Rights and Equal Opportunity for
a prosperous Pakistan is the birthright of every Pakistani. It is
a birthright too often snatched at the point of the gun from the
citizens by the very men who are to guard and defend us. This can
stop to enable the people and the country to march with confidence
and courage, with pride and dignity, with progress and prosperity
into the twenty first century.
Pakistan is a great Federation. Its multilingual, multicultural
society is its strength. Its sons and daughters are its true assets,
the bright face of its future, the promise of all our tomorrows.
The Pakistan Peoples Party is the only Federal, democratic and equal
opportunity Party that can guarantee to our great people a great
future. The PPP worker is selfless and committed to the values of
Faith, freedom, fundamental human rights, family values and a wholesome
society based on the rule of law and human dignity.
The founding principle of the Party Islam is our religion places
a responsibility on each PPP supporter to reach out in a spirit
of accommodation and tolerance to all faiths, to prevent the state
from interfering in the religious rights of the citizens (which
breeds sectarianism) and to treat people of all faiths with respect
enabling them to enjoy religious freedom and equality before the
law.
The second principle of the PPP ideology is that democracy is our
policy. The PPP commitment to freedom and fundamental rights, including
freedom from hunger and want, is written in the blood of its martyrs
and in the red marks of lashes on the back of its workers. It is
written in the suffering and sacrifice of its leaders the greatest
of whom was Quaid e Awam. He faced the gallows refusing to bow before
tyranny defending the human rights of our citizens to the last of
his breath.
In every age, including today, PPP leaders and office bearers are
behind bars, in exile, banned from travelling defending their Party
at greater personal cost to their families and themselves. We are
proud of our workers who kept high their morale even as political
orphans and opportunists colluded in the murder of justice to eliminate
the one political counterforce to the powers of the Establishment.
The third PPP principle is that musawaat is our economy. Believing
in a humane economic system, the PPP Parliamentarians aims at creating
a just and equitable society with equal opportunity for all its
citizens. The gap between the rich and the poor is one that can
be bridged given the commitment to reach out to the underprivileged,
the downtrodden and the discriminated. The PPP Parliamentarians
is proud of being the voice of the poor, the working classes and
the middle classes. Our policies, while dedicated to the underprivileged
created conditions that enabled the business and trading classes
to prosper.
We believe that humans are one chain and by helping one part of
the human chain, all the interconnecting nets are also helped. We
believe that violence begets violence and peace begets peace. Our
leaders reject revenge to devote themselves to the challenges of
governance producing a society that grows and develops to the advantage
of the citizens where the writ of government provides security to
the citizen as well as opportunity.
The final principle of the PPP is All Power to the People. We believe
that Almighty Allah has blessed the citizens of this world as His
trustees. The people are God’s agents and it is the verdict
of the people freely expressed that can bring true blessings to
a land and enable us as Muslims to co-exist in peace and harmony
with Non Muslims to build together a world of peace, freedom, justice
and economic opportunity.
These four principles are described by the PPP workers as Bhuttoism,
the policy that guides us in our decision making and enables us
to work with dedication and determination to fulfil the dream of
Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam.
VOTE FOR US: VOTE FOR PEACE, FREEDOM AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
Peace, Freedom and Economic Opportunity are the principles that
can overcome the forces of hate and revenge and build our pure land
into green fields of human advancement.
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