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Pakistan Muslim League-Functional manifesto comes to fore
KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Functional Tuesday announced its election manifesto, which promises an allocation six percent of GDP to education and health.
PML-F leaders Muzzafar Hussain Shah, Muhammad Ali Durrani and Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh, addressing a press conference, said the election manifesto focused on facilitating the poor masses and solving the long-standing unresolved issues facing country.
They said their party would revive the old status of Bahawalpur State. They said the shoddy deals of selling out islands of Sindh would be undone.
They said law and order would be improved throughout the Sindh province and citizens-police liaison committee system introduced in all divisional headquarters, besides launching Rescue-1122 service.
Muzzafar Hussain Shah said they believed in boosting education and healthcare and at least 6 percent of the GDP would be earmarked for these two crucial sectors.
He said metropolitans including Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur would get modern traffic police system on the pattern of motorway police.
Action would be taken against smoke-emitting vehicles to improve environment. The National Environmental Act 1997 would be implemented in letter and spirit.
He said the water accord of 1991 would be revived to ensure fair share of irrigation water to the provinces. He said the tax net would be expanded from 1 to 3 million.
The load shedding the energy crisis would be given special focus and all sources of alternate energy would be promoted. He said transparency and merit would be ensured in government recruitments and all posts of BPS-16 and above would only be filled through public service commission exams.
The PML-F leaders also said they would improve the human rights situation and violence on women and girls would be ended, adding the religious minorities would be given 5percent quota in admissions and employment. (PPI)
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