Promise Tracking
1,000 mobile health units for remote areas – PML-N
Promise Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) promises in its manifesto 2013, on page 41, that at least 1,000 mobile health units will be launched to provide basic health facilities to remote areas and isolated localities. Background In Pakistan, the health sector is in shambles due to lack of attention from previous elected governments. A UNDP’s …
Laptops for Bara students – Nasir Khan Afridi
The Promise During his campaign for May 11 elections, Nasir Khan Afridi, then an independent candidate for NA-46 constituency of Tehsil Bara in Khyber agency, promised to provide laptop computers to all students in his constituency if he was elected as Member of the National Assembly. Afridi has since been elected to the National …
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The cost of delay in elections 2018
The Election Commission Pakistan’s (ECP) preliminary delimitation of electoral constituencies publication—issued earlier this month—of national, provincial and the FATA constituencies has received a backlash for its apparent anomalies. The allegations of anomalies, from both government and the opposition parties, have helped spiral fears about a possible delay in the elections 2018. A parliament’s committee convened …
Asking agencies to probe into horse-trading.
Former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, sarcastically urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo-moto notice against alleged horse-trading in the Senate’s election. During a hearing at the Election Commission of Pakistan regarding the alleged horse-trading taking place in the Senate’s Election, State’s Minister for Information, Maryam Aurangzaib, requested Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Raza Khan …
Stepping up as PML-N’s president under the hanging sword
Shahbaz Sharif has been appointed as the acting president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz by the unanimous agreement of his party, after the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that Nawaz Sharif cannot run the party as president after his disqualification. The decision made by Nawaz Sharif left him no choice, as his first priority for this …
