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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Promise During the 2013 general elections campaign, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan promised that if voted to power, his party PTI would eliminate corruption within 90 days. The Plan PTI’s Pervaiz Khattak, chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, endorsed the party policy and claimed he would eliminate major corruption within 30 days while talking to the …

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Promise President of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has promised that his party would initiate steps for the creation of Hazara province if voted to power. Mr Sharif made the promise to the people of Hazara while addressing an election rally at Mansehra district. Detail/Background In April 2010, when the highly publicized Eighteenth …

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Statement Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Chief of Jamiat UIema-e-Islam (JUI-F), has said “People in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have rejected ‘the Goldsmith Agenda’ in by-elections.” Maulana was referring to his and JUI’s main political rival in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) – in a reference to PTI using a reference to the name “Goldsmith”, the former father-in-law …

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Promise In the run-up to May 11 [this year’s] general election; Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan promised – if voted to power – PTI will end VIP (very important person) culture in the country. Plan Spelling out in detail the plan to eradicate the deeply entrenched VIP culture, the PTI research wing – Insaaf Research Wing –  in …

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    Statement “Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leadership is incompetent and not capable of leading the coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,” says Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman – Ameer [head] of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami (JUI). The JUI leader in a televised interview with one of the Pakistani leading news channel said the Imran Khan-led PTI party is not capable …

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The Promise “If we are voted to power, we will run metro bus services in all the provinces,” Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the elected prime minister of Pakistan, promised while seeking votes during an election campaign rally at Railway Station Ground Mardan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Background The Metro Bus System (MBS) project, at an estimated cost of …

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  Promise Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf promised to introduce a uniform system of education in the province if voted to power by the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Source: (PTI Manifesto) The Plan Speaking to Truth Tracker, the Provincial Minister for education, Atif Khan, said the PTI-led coalition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had already initiated work on …

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  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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 Statement In a recent statement, former Federal Minister for Information Qamar Zaman Kaira said that the PPP fulfilled 80% of the clauses in the Charter of Democracy. Background The Charter was formulated and signed by Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, representing the two major political parties, in May 2006. The Charter established common ground between …

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  The statement Awami National Party leaders claim that the major reason for the ruling party’s defeat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elections was large-scale rigging in elections, and complained about it throughout the campaign. Background The Awami National Party (ANP), the former ruling party of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and an ally of the PPP at …

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