Promise Tracking

Promise PTI will attract overseas investment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Background Participating in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Investment Roadshow 2015 in Dubai in February last year, Khan had said: “We are setting up investment cells to make things easier for investors.” He had vowed that an office would be set up in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat to …

The promise Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had formally inaugurated the Social Health Protection Initiative of Sehat Sahulat Program titled “Sehat Insaf Card” Phase 2, an initiative of the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to facilitate poor segment of society with better and easy health facility. Background In August last year, Khan had …

Promise Pakistan Muslim League had promised in its 2013 election manifesto to enforce the job quota for minorities in educational institutions and pubic sector jobs including diplomatic missions. Background In March 2009, the government of Pakistan reserved 5 per cent job quota for minorities across the country. The quota was reserved under Article 260(3)(b) of …

The promise Promising tangible reforms in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had said his government would soon introduce the Police Act in the assembly to reform the force. Background Khan was speaking to participants at the launch ceremony of the Public Liaison Councils (PLCs) at Police Lines in Peshawar in November …

Promise Pakistan People’s Party in its 2013 manifesto promised that when in power it would amend the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2000 to allow for the creation of children’s courts, and assess other means to strengthen the juvenile justice system. Background The Juvenile Justice System does not fall in the civil or criminal justice apparatus; …

The Promise Chairman of “Pakistan Peoples’ Party” (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari applauded the “Sindh Criminal Law (Protection of minorities) Bill, 2015” legislation on 24 November, 16 to stop forced conversions in province. PPP is the ruling Party in southern province of Pakistan Sindh. Chairman PPP urged the other provinces to adopt the legislation in other …

The Promise: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had promised that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will ensure the provision of free emergency health services to the patients at government hospitals in the province.   Background :  On September 4, 2013, during the inauguration ceremony of the free emergency treatment service at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), …

The Promise: The PPP government had promised in its 2013 manifesto to increase the outreach of Lady Health Workers’ services to 100 percent of rural areas and to urban slums.   Background: Initiated in 1994, the Lady Health Programme has nearly collapsed in Sindh after the devolution of the health sector.  As soon as the …

The Promise : In its 2013 election manifesto, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had promised to increase the Tax-to-GDP ratio to 15 percent by the end of its tenure in 2018. Background : According to the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2015/16, the tax-to-GDP ratio in Pakistan varied between 9.1 and 11.0 percent.  The survey further argues that …

The promise: Peshawar: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had announced the establishment of an international airport in Bannu, a gateway to the volatile North Waziristan tribal region, alongside other development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) last year. Background: On May 2nd, while speaking to a cheering crowd at a public gathering in Bannu, the beleaguered prime …