PARTY NAME

PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE – NAWAZ

(PML-N)

Topic
“Party Manifesto”
PRESENTED BY:
HIFSA SAQIB
Founder Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Year Founded 1993
Geographical Focus National
Past Party Head Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Kulsoom Nawaz
Makhdoom Javed Hashmi
Office bearers:
1: Party Head Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, President
2: General Secretary Ahsan Iqbal
Slogan Vote Ko Izzat Do
Hum Badlain Gy Pakistan
Strong Economy- Strong Pakistan

Khuddar, Khushal, Khudmukhtar Pakistan

Issues in Focus Good Governance
Economic Revival
Participation In Elections/ 1993,1997,2002,2008,2013
Representation in Parliament

Prominent Personalities Raja Zafar ul Haq

Ishaq Dar
Khawaja Muhammad Asif
Ahsan Iqbal
Kulsoom Nawaz
 STANCE
 PML(N) is a right of centre party which has remained aligned with
right wing parties in the past.
 It has at the same time forged alliances with secular parties like ANP
and MQM and more recently with nationalist in Sindhi.
 The party is a strong proponent of economic reform/ liberalization,
good governance and elimination of corruption. Its perception has
changed from ‘pro-establishment’ in the 90s to ‘anti-establishment’
during the last decade. The party supports strong ties with the Arab
countries as well as the US and favors normalization of relations with
India.
 Nawaz Sharif Regime’s
 It was his 1st era. He ruled from 1990-1993 for 2 years 7 months & 4 days.
 His 2nd ruling time from 1997-1999. For 2 years 7 months & 25 days.
• His 3rd regime which continued till 4 years 1 month & 23 days. Since 2013-2017.
Manifesto
 While addressing at Manifesto launching ceremony, the President PML-N and the
former Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shebaz Sharif was of the view that the philosophy
of welfare of the people was the crust of PML-N Election Manifesto.
 He said that Manifesto contained the policy responses to the major challenges faced
by Pakistan and solutions are included in Manifesto with the help of experts and
relevant stakeholders through deliberations.
The Manifesto of PMLN 2013 - 2018 are:
Economic Revival
Poverty Alleviation
CPEC Game Changer
Tax Reforms
Agriculture & Food Security
Health Care
Social Protection
Technology
Youth & Leadership
Tourism
Transport & Environment
Religious Affairs
Women & Minorites
 The PML-N made bold claims in its 2013 manifesto. How many of those promises did it keep?

• The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's government finished its term on May 31,
2018.
• When it came to power after sweeping the 2013 elections, the PML-N, which
prides itself on prioritising economic growth and development, set out
ambitious policy goals in its manifesto that year.

How many of those promises did the party live up to five years later?
Let's look at what the data says.
 Agriculture and food security
Claims:
• —Ensure universal access to affordable food grains in all parts of the country by
legislating the Right to Food as a fundamental right.
• —To implement the Right to Food policy, the government will formulate, in
consultation with the provincial governments, a National Strategy for Food
Security to achieve an average agricultural growth of at least 4 percent per
annum in the next decade, evolve an equitable system of food procurement
and distribution, improve the access of poor households to food at affordable
prices and evolve a transparent system of safety nets for very poor households.
• —Strengthen the procurement programme to ensure all farmers receive the
guaranteed support price for grains and improve arrangements for storage and
subsidised distribution to ensure relative price stability throughout the year.
After five years:
• The government didn't follow through on its promise to legislate a right to food policy. The target
of 4 percent growth in the agriculture sector was also not achieved, with the sector's
performance remaining unimpressive throughout, peaking at 3.81 percent in 2018 and falling to
0.15 in 2016.
• The federal government's goal to procure food grains from all farmers to ensure they all receive a
guaranteed price was unrealistic from the start due to the simple fact that such an endeavour
would have been too costly.
• At its maximum, only one fourth of the total wheat production was procured by the government,
in 2017.
 However, the government ought to be commended for keeping the support price stable at
Rs1300 per maund of wheat during its tenure, unlike the previous Pakistan People's Party
government. As a result, the PML-N was able to reduce food price inflation.
 Food price inflation was also brought into check thanks to the government's Kisaan Package in
2015, which included benefits in terms of tax reduction on agriculture machinery from 45 percent
to nine percent, reduction in sales tax from 17 percent to seven percent on cold chain machinery,
tax holidays and mark up-free loans for farmers with less than 12.5 acres of landholding.
 Education and health
Claim:
• —The PML-N aims to achieve public spending of four percent and two
percent of the GDP for education and health by 2018 to achieve the
targets set by the United Nations.
After five years:
• The government did increase spending on education and health, but
only marginally so. The abysmal numbers fall well short of the
intended targets.
 Budget deficit and tax-to-GDP ratio
Claims:
• —Through reforms in the Federal Board of Revenue and the tax system, the PML-N will strive
to improve the tax-to-GDP ratio to 15 percent by 2018. Informal economy will be brought into
the tax net and the tax base will be broadened.
• —To tax all income and to achieve greater equity in the tax system by increasing dependence
on direct taxes.
• —Budget deficit will be brought down to four percent of GDP.
After five years:
• The government did consistently improve the tax-to-GDP ratio, but still wasn't able to achieve
what it promised in its manifesto.
• But what's more important is that the PML-N increased indirect taxes and the overall ratio of
direct and indirect taxes did not change. This also means that the tax base was not
broadened.
• The government did, nonetheless, made progress on reducing the budget deficit and almost
met its target in 2018.
 Inflation

Claim:
• —Inflation will be brought down to single digit in the range of seven or eight percent by limiting
government borrowing and lowering interest rates through effective monetary policy.
After five years:
• The PML-N succeeded in curbing inflationary pressures due to a host of factors, including low oil
prices, stable exchange rate as well as its decision to stabilise the support price for wheat.
• The food and general inflation figures are now at the lowest since a decade at 1.6 percent and 3.2
percent respectively, which is a great achievement and must be acknowledged, though the question
of sustainability still lingers, especially since international oil prices are out of the country's control.
 The government also performed respectably on reducing the interest rate by bringing it down to six
percent most recently, as opposed to 15 percent at the start of the PPP tenure in 2008.
 It is important to note that low interest rates help reduce borrowing cost and encourage investments
via bank borrowings.
 Housing for low income families

Claim:
• —At least 1,000 clusters of 500 houses each for lower income families will be developed on a public-
private partnership mode, and the industry will be encouraged to expand investment and to provide
employment opportunities in the adjoining areas.
After five years:
• This was an over ambitious target without realising the cost of setting up 500,000 houses in five years
— that is 100,000 each year.
• Suppose that the construction of a single house costs a minimum of Rs1 million — the expenditure of
building 100,000 houses each year would be Rs100 billion.
• The annual cost alone would have been 60 percent of the total development expenditure outside the
PSDP (PUBLIC SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME) during the entire tenure of the government.
• How would the government have allocated resources to such a project when it failed to achieve its
revenue target each year and consistently cut back on development expenditure?
In the end, there is no proof in the spending budget that shows that the government actually built
any of the houses it had promised.
 Macroeconomic stability

Claim:
• —In order to decrease the fiscal deficit, we will eliminate VIP culture
and launch an austerity drive. Expenses related to the presidency,
prime minister, governors and chief ministers will be significantly
reduced.
After five years:
• Contrary to the promises, the budget for the Prime Minister’s Office
went up consistently. In fact, the budget each year had to be revised
and increased.
 Energy crises
Claim:
• —Investment of about US$20 billion to generate 10,000 MW of electricity in the next five years will stimulate
overall growth of the economy.
After five years:
• The government initiated several coal-fired plants in places such as Sahiwal, Port Qasim, Jamshoro, Faislabad,
Mianwali and DG Khan; a solar park in Bahawalpur; and wind farms in Sindh.
• But despite this show of resolve, a load shedding-free Pakistan is still very much a dream. Not to mention the
fact that coal power plants are major pollutants as well.
• Claims to bring about US$20 billion for the energy sector were a reach. It is as if the PML-N did not know
Pakistan's record and potential for attracting foreign investment.
• In 2014, foreign investment stood at US$4.44 billion, with a 36 percent reduction in the subsequent year to
US$2.83 billion and consistent declines thereafter.
• Over four years, the total foreign investment, including CPEC projects, was at around US$11.7 billion — a far
cry from the government's goal of having US$20 billion investment in the energy sector alone.
 A new framework for social change
Claim:
• —In cooperation with the provinces, the PML-N government will raise
the total spending on non-pension social protection from the current
level of one percent of GDP to at least two percent by 2018.
After five years:
• The non-pension social security and welfare includes expenditures on
the Benazir Income Support Program, Social Development Goals and
the Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal. The allocations to these remained less than
one-third of what the manifesto promised.