'Pakistan Ko Nawaz Do': PML-N aims for 1 crore plus jobs, rising income in 2024 election manifesto

As the elections draw near, the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) launched its long-awaited manifesto on Saturday in a ceremony attended by party heavyweights, including Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

The party introduced its manifesto with the slogan ‘Pakistan Ko Nawaz Do’. 

The Chairman of the Manifesto Committee, Senator Irfan Siddiqui,  mentioned that the manifesto was crafted by 30 committees and includes promises that the PML-N is fully capable of fulfilling. 

He maintained that party supremo Nawaz Sharif has explicitly directed party members to refrain from "showing false dreams in the manifesto."

“People must see which political party fulfilled promises made in its manifesto. Everyone presents the manifesto, but some act upon it,” he added.

PML-N unveiled its manifesto just two weeks before the elections, a response to criticisms from rival party PPP, which accused it of relying on an outdated manifesto.

Within the unveiled manifesto, the party advocates for the devolution of powers to local governments.

This marks the party's fourth bid for power, having previously been elected in 1990, 1997, and 2018, and now aspiring to regain control at the federal level.

Important highlights of the PML-N manifesto

• All government offices will be made environment friendly
• The supremacy of Parliament will be ensured

Judicial reforms

• Articles 62 and 63 will be restored to their original state
• There will be an alternative system of judicial, legal, panchayat system and dispute settlement
• Judicial, legal and justice system will be reformed
• A timely and effective judicial system will be implemented
• There will be effective, fair and timely prosecution
• It will be ensured that major and difficult cases are decided within a year
• Small cases will be decided in two months
• NAB will be abolished
• Anti-corruption institutions and agencies will be strengthened
• Penal Code 1898 and 1906 will be amended
• The court proceedings will be broadcast live
• Commercial courts will be established
• Courts of overseas Pakistanis will be made better and stronger
• A digital system will be established in the judiciary

Economic reforms

• Inflation will be reduced by 10% by FY 2025
• Inflation will be brought to 4 to 6 percent in four years
• More than one crore jobs will be given in five years
• The current account deficit will be brought down to 1.5 percent of GDP
• In three years, the economic growth rate will be brought to more than 6 percent
• A target of 25% reduction in poverty has been set in five years
• The target of annual remittance of manpower has been set at 40 billion dollars
• Unemployment will be reduced by 5% in five years
• A target of reducing the fiscal deficit to 3.5 percent or less in four years has been set
• The target is to increase per capita income to $2,000 in five years