PML-N an**unces manifesto for AJK polls
 

MUZAFFARABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday an**unced its manifesto for the general election 2016 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) scheduled to be held on July 21.

Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid an**unced the manifesto here at a news conference along with Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Chaudhry Barjees Tahir, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Affairs Dr Asif Kirmani, Chairman Manifesto Committee, former Chief Justice Manzoor Hussain Gilani PML-N AJK chapter President Raja Farooq Haider, deputy mayors of Islamabad Syed Zeeshan Ali Naqvi and Rifat Javed and other party leaders.

Pervaiz Rashid said the manifesto had been compiled by a team of experts keeping in view all the requirements of AJK and assured that the PML-N would fulfill each and every word mentioned in the development agenda.

He said the manifesto committee was formed by Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as president of the PML-N who appointed former Chief Justice Manzoor Hussain Gilani as head of the manifesto body.

After winning the election, he said, the PML-N would turn AJK into an ideal state by introducing reforms in different sectors including education, health, infrastructure, human rights, and administrative and judicial institutions.

Under the manifesto the party has committed to spend an additional amount of Rs50 billion on AJK roads and other infrastructure in five years besides the annual development budgetary allocations.

The PML-N would construct the Mirpur-Muzaffarabad Expressway and Leepa valley Tunnel, upgrade existing hospitals by setting up new trauma centers and build modern DHQ hospitals at the district level.

Five air ambulances, Sui gas to Mirpur and its adjoining areas and the opening of a Sui gas ****** have also been promised. A parliamentary committee will be constituted to resolve the problems of the affected people of Mangla Dam followed by the an**uncement of a package by the Prime Minister of Pakistan on its recommendations.

A university in district Sadh**ti, agriculture university in district Bhimber, upgradation of the Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences and beautification of Muzaffarabad also feature in the manifesto.

Pervaiz Rashid said it was the hallmark of the PML-N and Nawaz Sharif that whenever his party came to power it launched mega development projects across the country.

He said that all development projects including electricity, natural gas, motorways, health, education, water projects, self reliance in national defence, foreign investment, decent public transport, port and roads across Pakistan were witness to the development agenda of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.

From Peshawar to Lahore and Gwadar to Khunjrab all highway projects have been envisioned and built by Nawaz Sharif, he added.

**w, Pervaiz Rashid said, a motorway was being built from Lahore to Karachi the credit for which went to **ne other than Nawaz Sharif.

Development and progress is the identity of the PML-N and Nawaz Sharif.

The PML-N has a track record to set new examples of development in Pakistan, he added.

He said other political parties or individuals who had ruled for up to 10 years in the country had failed to expand the mega projects like motorways that had been completed by the PML-N in1998. Pervaiz Rashid recalled that when the elected government of the PML-N was ousted in 1999 Pakistan had surplus electricity and India was desiring to import it.

But when the PML-N again came to power in 2013 the previous governments of dictator Pervaiz Musharraf and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had pushed the country into darkness because of their failure to add even a single megawatt of electricity to the system.

He expressed confidence that the power projects initiated by the PML-N government would be completed by the year 2017 adding that all possible means of power generation including solar, coal, atomic and hydro were being explored to improve the energy situation in the country.

All the means of power generation being practiced in the modern word are being utilised to meet the country’s energy needs, he added.

The Information Minister said after coming into power the PML-N would bring AJK at par with the developed cities of Pakistan which were competing at the international level due to their progress and development.

The PML-N’s manifesto for AJK comprises **t mere words but it will be implemented in letter and spirit as the people are witnessing the same being fulfilled in Pakistan, he said.

Pervaiz Rashid said the PML-N’s adversaries including the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had **t an**unced their party manifestos yet for the AJK elections obviously because they had ** development vision to share with the public.

He said despite **t being in the AJK government the PML-N served humanity suffering from floods and quakes saying that Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif himself visited the affected areas to mitigate the mi****** of the people.

The minister said PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari just criticised the PML-N for **thing but he can**t dare to claim any development project executed by his party-led government in the valley during the last five years.

Earlier in his opening remarks Pervaiz Rashid paid tributes to the late Abdul Sattar Edhi for his meritorious services in the field of social work.

The PML-N, he said, believed in serving the people like the legendary Edhi and it always provided the best education, health and road infrastructure facilities besides increased employment opportunities to the common man.

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