INTRODUCTION

Our Aims

Part I
OUR PHILOSOPHY

1. Philosophy
2. Objectives

Part II
AUTONOMY, DEVELOPMENT DECENTRALIZATION

3. Devolution of Authority
4. Freedom of Conscience, Speech and Association
5. Local Self Government
6. Tribal Areas of NWFP and Punjab
7. Northern Areas

Part III
RIGHTS OF THE OPPRESSED

8. Labor
9. Rights of Women-Elimination of Discrimination
10. We care for our Children and Senior Citizens
11. Minorities are our Trust

Part IV
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS

12. Servants of the People
13. Jail Reforms
14. Multi - Dimensional Defense Policy
15. Elimination of Corruption

Part V
A NEW ORDER - ONWARDS TO 21^ST CENTURY

16. Abolition of Poverty
17. Towards Prosperity
18. Modernization Strategy
19. Equality and Income Distribution
20. Customer Oriented Banking
21. Rapid Industrialization and Development of Mineral Resources
22. Fair Wage Policy
23. judicious Taxation System
24. Deregulation
25. Intensive Modernized Farming
26. End of Feudalism
27. Forest, Fisheries and Livestock
28. Small Farmers Strategy
29. Education for All
30. Leaders of Tomorrow
31. Art, Culture and Indus Tradition
32. Science and Technology - Need of the Hour
33. Energy - 40,000 Megawatt
34. Water
35. Safe Transport and Integrated Communication
36. A Healthy Nation
37. War Against Narcotics
38. Half A Million Houses Every Year
39. Tourism
40. Overseas Pakistanis are our Ambassadors

Part VI
POLITICAL CO-OPERATION AND END TO VENDETTA

41. Assassination, Revenge and the Political System

Part VII
OUR ROLE IN THE WORLD

42. Foreign Policy - Equality, Friendship and Peace

WE PLEDGE TO SERVE

WE BELIEVE IN FREEDOM, DIGNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND END TO DISCRIMINATION, DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION. AN END TO POVERTY, SLUMS, ILLITERACY AND ILL HEALTH, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE. UNITING A NATION BITTERLY DIVIDED BY ETHNIC AND SECTARIAN DIFFERENCE. CREATING AN IDENTITY WHICH GIVES A SENSE OF PRIDE AND GLORY TO ALL CITIZENS IRRESPECTIVE OF THE PROVINCE THEY BELONG TO.

Countrymen. Pakistan is today facing a grave crisis striking at the very roots of our Nationhood. A crisis that began with the illegal overthrow of the elected government of the people, the assassination of the popularity elected Prime Minister and savior of the nation who brought back 90,000 Prisoners of Was with honor and saved Pakistan when an earlier military dictatorship had divided it. The sole motto of the authoritarian regime was: destroy the PPP which is the voice of the people, the voice of the weak, the dispossessed, the discriminated.

In pursuit of this vendetta against the masses, those who courageously, defiantly and with determination fought for freedom, for a law for just society, free from hunger, poverty and disease were sent to the gallows, killed in streets, villages and mosques, ladies carrying Quran Sharif were not spared, the back of our youth was ripped apart with the whiplash. The proud land of Pakistan was turned into a graveyard. Torture chambers set up. Judiciary emasculated. Lawyers tear gassed. Press muzzled. Parliament silenced. Political parties banned. Political leaders imprisoned. Human Rights suspended.

And while the people were suppressed with state terror, opportunists and power seekers looted the nation. Corruption reached unheard of level. A new culture was born based on violence. As the state showed no respect for law and rested on might, some began to believe power emanated not from observing the law but making their was no security of life for the ordinary citizens. Universities seats of knowledge or learning, became sites of armed confrontation by a youth influenced by the brutality and barbarism of the regime which ruled. Lawlessness was the order of the day.

The intolerant attitude of the regime created a value system based on intolerance. Each social group became more intolerant of another. Each ethnic and sectarian group refused to come to terms with each other. Political parties bring different social, economic, sectarian, provincial and ethnic groups together on the basis of a common programme common principles, common goals, ideals and vision. However, a "non party" system was adopted which accentuated division of the lines of race, sect, caste. As a result, brother was pitted against brother, province was pitted against province, sect was pitted against sect and ethnic group were pitted against ethnic group. The proud land of Pakistan, which was created so that the Muslims of the sub continent could live in honor and dignity was shamed with the sight of Muslims killing Muslims. This is not our destiny. This will not be our destiny under the banner of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

The nation was deliberately fragmented to contain dissent. An unholy alliance was struck between the Zia regime and the secessionists to battle the masses. But the masses are Pakistan. when you fight the people, the country is weakened. When the people die, the Nation bleeds.

No country has succeeded where there has been a military dictatorship. Be it the General’s Argentina, the Colonel’s Greece or our own Yahya and Zia military dictatorships. When the people are strong, the Nation is strong. Pakistan itself was created by a political leadership, a political will which could not be deflected from the pursuit of its goal.

Countrymen. In this hour of peril, the PPP is confident that the brave sons and daughters of this land will come forward to save the Nation, to strengthen it, to build it. We must do it. We can not sit silently by while the Nation burns and bleeds. We are not like the British who, at he end of the Empire, could return to England. This is our land. We come from it and it comes from us. Each particle of its soil is sacred.

The people of Pakistan today face perhaps the greatest challenge in their history. The body politic is lacerated by the wounds inflicted during the last eleven years. General Zia’s domestic policies designed purely to preserve himself in power have fragmented civil society along ethnic, sectarian, racial and caste lines; A myopic foreign policy has created an unnecessary threatto environment around us. Misconceived economic policies have eroded our natural and human resource base, and placed the financial system on the verge of bankruptcy.

So once again we stand on the precipice. Once again the anguish of a whole generation waits to be articulated into a creative quest. Yet the sacrifice and struggle, the lashings and the lonely defiance in a death cell have not gone in vain. They have steeled our purpose. We shall heal the wounds. We shall overcome.

We shall overcome with humility and peace. We shall overcome with love and forgiveness. We shall overcome the indignity and hunger. We shall overcome the humiliation of being shelterless, of being unemployed, of being illiterate. We shall overcome the outrage of poverty in the midst of plenty.

We believe that Pakistan is a viable state and it possesses requisites to emerge as a strong and prosperous nation. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah voicing the aspirations of the Muslim masses on founding of Pakistan enunciated the principles that the Pakistan is to be a modern nation state. The working classes looked towards the new state with hope for social justice, for freedom from all kinds of exploitation, including the stranglehold of feudalism, and for opportunities in a new socio-economic order, where the people would be the participants in the affairs of their country.

The history of Pakistan is the history of the people’s undaunted struggle against the pernicious exercise of power by the privileged ruling elite. During the last 40 years the people have suffered three ruthless Martial Laws and four wars in addition to the abrogation and suspension of four Constitutions.

The crisis has deep roots. It is a crisis between the State and the people. It has created a deep schism in the autocratic State structure. Only a sensitive and democratic government can mobilize the will of the people to correct the imbalances in our economic and political structure.

Since the founding of the Pakistan Peoples Party is 1967, till today in 1988, the party has played the most vital historical role in the fight for freedom of the masses.

Now when the nation is on the threshold of a new era and has the tryst with the current historical events, we vividly recall the words of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Shaheed.

" We, who believe in the people, must go back to the people. This being so, under no circumstances can we contemplate being a part of any development, which would be against the interest of the people."

We are confident that the courageous people of our land, will come forward and strengthen the hands of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the forthcoming elections scheduled for November 16, 1988. A victory for the PPP is a victory for the people, for the Nation, for freedom, hope, dignity, equality, justice. An end to poverty, bitterness, vengeance, violence. Together we shall face the challenges. Together we shall climb the highest mountain tops and build the broken bridges. Together we shall herald the dawn of democracy and the promises of a new morrow.
 
 

1. To uphold the high ideals of Islam bases on the concept of brotherhood, harmony, tolerance and egalitarianism;

2. To unite the Nation and give a sense of national pride based on equity and justice;

3. To restore representative, constitutional and parliamentary rule which safeguard provincial autonomy, ends the sense of discrimination and strengthens the foundations of the State;

4. To ensure equal social status and safeguard human rights in all its dimensions.

5. To strengthen democratic processes by a broad political consensus and involve maximum participation of all groups and individuals to give lasting stability to civilian rule.

6. To maximize utilization of our National potential and human resources, by making the economy self reliant and prevent the erosion of the human and natural resource base of Pakistan.

7. To establish and maintain peace and harmony in civil society and ensure security and protection of life, honor and property of every citizen irrespective of his political affiliation, religion, caste, race and sex;

8. To eliminate poverty by the creation of a middle class created by encouraging investment and transfer of technology;

9. To safeguard our frontiers by high alertness in defence capability while simultaneously seeking regional peace and stability through pursuing a rational foreign policy, while maintaining our commitments.
 
 

• ISLAM IS OUR FAITH

• DEMOCRACY IS OUR POLITY

• SOCIALISM IS OUR ECONOMY

• SHAHADAT FOR OUR CAUSE

1.1- Islam is our Faith

The motto of the Party expresses the nature of its ideology. The first principle "Islam if our Faith" is all encompassing and serves as the foundation of the ideological edifice of the Party. we believe that the strong egalitarian spirit and characteristic of Islam is the dominant reality of our history.

1.2- Democracy is our Polity

Thus when we affirm that "Democracy is our Polity" we mean that the State shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people and that the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice shall be fully observed and where citizens shall be guaranteed fundamental rights, where the independence of the judiciary and freedom of press in fully secured.

1.3- Socialism is our Economy

"Socialism is our Economy" is an affirmation of the great Islamic egalitarian message, which is the essence of our historical ethos. The Party believes that there should be an end to exploitation and equal economic opportunities should be created. In the economic sphere we wish to create harmony by bringing different economic groups together on the basis of justice.

1.4- Shahadat for our Cause

"Shahadat for our Cause" is born out of the struggle for the rights of the people relentlessly waged by the workers and cadres of the PPP. martyrdom in the Just Cause in one of the fundamental principles of Action n Islam. Man’s triumph in this world is not only the story of material success but also of continuous struggle for attaining higher levels of consciousness and self realization. Man has achieved dignity by refusing to submit to the forces of oppression, by upholding the principles of social justice and where necessary by laying down his life for the Cause. Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was one such man. His supreme sacrifice has strengthened us for resolute struggle against the forces of oppression, obscurantism and injustice.

1.5- All Power to the People

"All Power to the People" implies that whereas sovereignty over the entire Universe belongs to Almighty Allah alone and the authority thus emanating is a sacred trust and that the people are its custodians, this Authority is exercisable only through the people as a whole, through their chosen representatives. Our programme envisages to make this principle a pulsating reality and emphasizes that the people must become the masters of their destiny.
 

The Party pledges to struggle for the objectives outline below:

2.1- To safeguard the political and territorial integrity of Pakistan and strive for friendship with her neighbors.

2.2- To assert the supremacy of the will of the people as outlined in the Constitution of 1973 of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

2.3- To strengthen the institutions of State.

2.4- to restore the majesty of laws and provide speedy and inexpensive justice to the people.

2.5- To provide security to life and property and maintain effective law and order.

2.6- To provide a suitable environment and necessary infrastructure for rapid economic growth.

2.7- To spread the benefit of the economic growth to all, specially the least privileged and depressed economic groups.

2.8- To acquire and assimilate modern technology and utilize it as a vehicle for growth of the leading industrial and agricultural sectors.

2.9- To ensure economic justice by spreading the benefits of progress and evolving an equitable taxation sector that is also development oriented while not overburdening the honest tax payers.

2.10- to rapidly expand effective literacy levels from below 20 % to over 90 5 within five years. Expand education, including vocational, scientific and higher technical and university education to cater to the needs of a modern developing State.

2.11- To provide for the health care of the entire population.

2.12- To induct and aid the private sector in the economic field as well as in education and health.

2.13- To establish harmonious, equitable and productivity oriented relationship between labor and management.

2.14- To eliminate waste and corruption public services.

2.15- To discourage and eliminate the parallel economy and strengthen the real economy of Pakistan.

2.16- To eliminate drugs, narcotics and violence.

2.17- To evolve a truly Islamic egalitarian society which shall inculcate amongst the people, pride in nationhood, by respecting all citizens providing equal social status and safeguarding human rights in all its dimensions.

2.18- To ensure that every citizen of Pakistan is provided a dignified existence and is given food, clothing, shelter, education, health cover, a safe and healthy environment and equality before the law in order to build Pakistan into a modern nation State.

Man’s quest to be the Master of his environment is at once an expression of his expanding consciousness and increasing ability to manage his affairs. This aspiration for autonomy is a fundamental human desire, which can neither be suppressed nor postponed.

We will adopt a new dynamic approach in the center province relations. Tensions created by deprivation have accentuated during years of military dictatorships pledged to strict unitary systems, resulting in a sense of alienation. Conventional solutions prescribe transfer of powers from the center to the provincial governments. We believe that the cure for this tension lies in devolution of powers, where people have sense of participation and self rule in all matters, including trade, finance and employment. Instead of one province being pitted against another province or against the center, we will get a resolution of divergent viewpoints even within the province. We will adopt an effective system of structural adjustment and achieve devolution of all facets of authority to the people. This concept of devolution runs throughout our manifesto as a recurrent theme. We will take the following measures:

3.1 Restore the 1973 Constitution.

3.2 Strengthen the constitutional framework of.

3.3 Revise the quantum of economic distribution between the provinces on the basis of accepted norms, viz.:

3.4 Abolish the concurrent legislative list.

3.5 Revise the Federal Legislative list.

3.6 Authorize provincial public service commission to recruit according to pre-established shares and quotas of all appointments to the Federal Government and autonomous bodies. The Federal public service commission will continue recruitments for the Federal Territory and FATA.

3.7 Devolve maximum authority of government to the smallest functional unit. Whatever can be done in tehsil must not be handled at the district. Involve local bodies actively on a day to day basis with the rural development programs and with the community development in the urban areas.

3.8 Improve the total system of running government, streamline and decentralize it, to serve the needs of the people efficiently, effectively and with speed. Give people the power to decide issues relating to their own social welfare. Institute a proper system of checks and balance. Reward merit and make them fully accountable. Reform the system to obtain maximum direct participation of citizens in all local government bodies.

3.9 Fund the local government by delegating the provincial governments to collect taxes.

3.10 Take decentralization to its logical conclusion and blend it with the overall uplift of socio-economic conditions and expansion of social and political consciousness. The Party is beholden to this ideal and will work to translate it into a practical, dynamic and realizes program.

We believe that only when political and social authority is transferred to the people, provincial autonomy will bear fruit, people will gain confidence and the Federation shall be strengthened.
 
 

Democratic polity is rooted in freedom of the individual. Our protracted struggle must be a culmination of their achievement.

4.1 The Press in Pakistan will be free and all legislation and rules violative of Press freedom shall be abolished. Similarly, television and radio will be given autonomy to cater to the needs of the people. It will be the endeavor of the Party that the media is transformed into an informative, entertaining, objective, truthful and trustworthy means of communication with the people.

4.2 Fundamental rights of freedom of speech and association will be jealously and zealously safeguarded.

4.3 We will abolish the National Press Trust. Newsprint quotas and advertisements will be equitable distributed regionally, linguistically and according to periodicity and readership. The Associated Press of Pakistan will be freed from government control. The practice of Press advice will be abolished. All banned newspapers and periodicals shall be restored.

4.4 The Party will advance and protect the rights of the working journalists by improving their work and wage regulations to give them secure and honorable service conditions., we will secure speedy implementation of Wage Awards.

4.5 A second TV channel in every province in the regional languages will be started to eradicate illiteracy give health education, programs in popular form and create awareness of the rights available to the common man under law. Guide farmers on weather conditions, availability of water and cropping practices. Time will be leased out to private sector for entertainment programs.

4.6 We will ensue safe return of all political exiles and release of detenues, restoration of their property and jobs.

4.7 all banned newspapers and periodicals shall be restored.

4.8 We shall honorably rehabilitate and adequately compensate all those who have suffered for the struggle for restoration of democracy or have gone to gallows while defying authoritarian rule and martyrs who have immolated themselves in this struggle. We will build monuments for Martyrs of Democracy and eternal flames will be lit where martyrs immolated themselves so as to demonstrate the nation’s conscience and historic struggle against the forces of oppression. 120 Sq. yards plot will be given to those who received lashes in the struggle. We will give grants to all those who have served more that one year rigorous imprisonment for political reasons. The families of Martyrs of Democracy will be considered for State aid until their children get complete education.

4.9 Pakistan will sign the International Bill on Human Rights including the optional covenants. We will actively associate with human rights organizations. We will seek to create an Asian Human Right’s Court on the pattern of European Court of Justice.

Most of the development programs will be executed through the local government system and the involvement of local government in rural and urban uplift schemes will be greatly enhanced.

5.1 The functions of district management will be increasingly transferred to local bodies.

5.2 The departments of education and health will be decentralized at district and tehsil levels, with directly elected district education and health officers.

5.3 Local self government services in each province will be strengthened.

5.4 Some of the other functions of local self government such as sanitation drainage, parks roads, water supply shall be administratively and horizontally integrated.

We will take urgent measures to improve the lot of the people living in the tribal areas of NWFP and Punjab. Facilities available in the rest of the country will be extended to these tribal areas through crash programs.

6.1 We will ensure that adult franchise in extended to the tribal areas the representation accorded in the NWFP provincial assemblies and extend judicial review by superior courts, in cases pertaining to FCR, FATA regulations and other special laws as applicable in various tribal areas.

6.2 Special development programs under semi-autonomous development bodies will be planned and undertaken so that the benefits of development are extended to the long neglected tribal areas people and maximum job opportunities are available.

6.3 Massive reconstruction and rehabilitation program will be launched for those areas of NWFP / Baluchistan / Tribal Areas which have been affected due to disturbed conditions and influx of Afghan refugees.

The Northern Areas are another part of our country that have been neglected for too long. The demands of the people of Northern Areas will be solved in accordance with their aspirations.
 

The Party believes that the role of the government is to protect the people against exploitation and oppression. To improve the economic lot of the workers and peasants.

8.1 We will abolish all kinds of pernicious systems of exploitation of workers such as bonded labor contract labor shall be abolished.

8.2 The present minimum wage is too low causing great hardship and is not conducive to increase production and productivity. Minimum wage will be increased and protected against inflation.

8.3 Private sector will be allowed tax relief for providing permanent shelters to their worker.

8.4 All employees dismissed or victimized for political reasons under various Martial Law regulation will be re-employed, including those dismissed under MLR 52.

8.5 Workers Equity Participation Fund will be established as a Trust. The corpus of the fund and further contribution there to from the industrial organization will be invested in the shares of listed and non listed industrial enterprises so as to enable the workers to participate in the management. The profit earned by this Trust will the used for:

8.6 The activities of the social security and employees old age institutions and all other worker welfare organizations will be integrated. The employees social security organizations will pay unemployment benefits to established industrial workers who have been retrenched or made jobless.

8.7 Trade Unions will be re-organized functionally to contribute more effectively to socio-economic and political goals. Unions will be represented at all levels of socio-economic activities.

8.8 We will encourage workers participation in management of public sector enterprises.

8.9 The right of collective bargaining and freedom of association will be strengthened.

8.10 All rules and regulations will be brought in line with ILO Convention.

8.11 The labor laws will also be extended to the agricultural workers and institutional arrangements will be made to ensure that they are not denied their rights.

8.12 We will establish worker’s Academies in the four provinces which will impart necessary training to the workers and award them diplomas and all factories subject to labor laws will participate and contribute to an adult literacy program and the setting up of vocational schools.

8.13 We will appoint a high powered commission to compile a comprehensive, but simplified labor legislation by amalgamating or merging various ordinances and laws connected with labor and trade union activities.
 

Women were denied their rights and considered as chattel until Islam declared men and women as equal in the eyes of Allah. Conscious of our Islamic obligations we shall ensure that women of Pakistan have equal opportunities to this end.

We are proud of the women of Pakistan who fought valiantly in the freedom struggle, went to jails with infants in their lap, were tortured in the infamous Lahore Fort and braved bullets when their villages were attacked. Our women are daughters of the soil, they will help us in developing our society and reaching high positions in executive, judiciary and diplomatic service.

The Party is committed to eliminate discrimination against women. We will take following measures:

9.1 Pakistan will sign the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women.

9.2 Women will have the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work, to protection against unemployment, to equal pay for work of equal value, and payment of maternity leave.

9.3 All discriminatory laws against women will be repealed.

9.4 Personal law will be reformed and brought in line with the demands of contemporary socio-economic realities.

9.5 The law-enforcing machinery will be made effective to protect modesty of women.

9.6 The government will take special measures to promote the literacy of women.

9.7 The curse of Jahez is a pernicious evil in our society, which will be eradicated by enlarging social consciousness and enforcing strictly the relevant laws and Dowry Act.

In every civilized society children and senior citizens need special attention and care. We will take following measures:

10.1 Child labor will be abolished.

10.2 Special institutions will be built for physically and mentally handicapped children.

10.3 Massive propaganda in the media will be undertaken to eradicate assault abuse of children and quick and exemplary punishment will be given to delinquents.

10.4 Special homes will be built for senior citizens, who have nobody to look after them.

In order to promote a just society it is essential to protect the rights of the minorities. In cognizance of Quaid-e-Azam’s directives and in consonance with the principle of Islam, we pledge protection to all the minorities. Minorities are our sacred trust. Following measures will be taken:

11.1 Minorities will be further integrated as equal partners with the majority community in all spheres of national life, while at the same time allowing them to enjoy to the maximum their individual religious and cultural identities. Special measures will be adopted for the uplift of the educationally backward section of the minority communities. All religious and charitable institutions of the minorities will be exclusively administered by them.

We will give security of service under the law. We will reorient government servants to be public servants to serve the people of Pakistan. salary structures will be linked with inflation. Differentials between various grades will be narrowed.

Jail manual will be revised. Municipalities and district councils will appoint an official to oversee jails. Jails will be institutions of reform. Solitary confinement, Band ward and Danda Berry will be abolished. Torture and lashes will be eliminated. The minimum international standards as embodied in the UN convention will be enforced.

With long borders to defend, with a limited strategic depth, and with a history of conflict and tension with its closest neighbors, the search for Pakistan’s security remains our main preoccupation. With long years of military rule, security has unfortunately come to be seen as synonymous only with the acquisition of weapons.

14.1 The Pakistan Peoples Party government had pursued the aim of self reliance during the "70s". But the projects initiated by it were not developed further. Many were dropped altogether. The country’s defence production has thereby been arrested at a very low and rudimentary stage, and with the huge annual outlays Defence are making no contribution to the country’s self reliance in the field of security.

14.2 We consider it totally unacceptable hat with almost a million men under arms, and with 60 percent of the budget devoted to military expenditure, Pakistan should remain in such a position. The PPP attaches the highest importance to the maintenance of a well trained, adequately equipped and highly motivated defence force. We are convinced that this objective can be attained without taking away resources from other vital national objectives. The PPP also believes that the defence of the nation’s territory and unity is the duty of the nation as a whole which all citizens must undertake. By the same token, the PPP considers that the trained and disciplined manpower of the armed forces should be given a role in nation building activities.

Martial Law regime has encouraged discretionary authority, feelings of insecurity and a high rate of conspicuous consumption. By encouraging nepotism it has created the soft state it has reduced the obligation of the community towards the nation state and strengthened the bonds of the biradari, caste, clan and tribe. The policies of the last eleven years have completely devastated the social and moral fiber of our nation. All sectors of life have become stagnated and polluted. Only crime, narcotics and arms trafficking have flourished. The extent of corruption and mismanagement is indicated by the admission that Rs. 40 billion is embezzled every year. We will remove corruption from our land and reward honesty.

15.1 High level commissions will be constituted with the task of investigation.

15.2 Corruption among lower ranks cannot be combated if is not first stamped out at the higher level. All public servants will be expected to be completely honest in financial dealings. They would declare their income and wealth before appropriate forum periodically.

15.3 We shall put an end to corrupt practices by streamlining procedures removing unwanted controls and discretionary powers.

15.4 We will publish details of bank loans irregularly written off and recover the money. 
 

We will make Pakistan a modern manufacturing center of Asia. Our endeavors will be at making government effective and purposeful. We fully recognize the government’s role as an important initiator of change. The existing socio-economic system, while it produces affluence for the few, generates poverty for the many. We will launch a three pronged strategic thrust to overcome poverty and to provide at least the minimum conditions of civilized life to all the people of Pakistan.

16.1 The provision of basic amenities such as drinking water, health, housing, transport and education to all the people rather that to a privileged few. This will be achieved by entrusting these responsibilities to the local bodies after their authority, powers and resources base have been expanded and enhanced. Programs involving the people in the formulation and implementation of these projects will be encouraged. The people will thus become both the subject and the object of development.

16.2 The party is committed to the elimination of feudalism to bring human dignity to the peasantry and to achieve the cultural and economic environment for equality and dynamic growth. Programs designed to increase the productivity of small farms (operating less than 25 acres) which constitute 92 % of the total number of farms and 64 % of the total farm area, will be adopted. These programs will focus on developing the access of these farms to irrigation, quality seed, fertilizer and credit. In addition income generation and skill development products for women as well as projects for health and following measures will be taken:

16.2.1 The Party will make a major break with the past by integrating an employment policy in the heart of the national Economic Planning.

16.2.2 Incentives for industrial investment will be linked with employment generation effects of industrial projects, but the best equity ratio for new industries will be rationalized and reduced, and the interest on long term loans will be reviewed.

16.2.3 A major drive for the small scale industrialization in the rural areas and small towns will be initiated so as to:

16.2.4 The establishment of a heavy industrial base. this alone an sustain the rapid, and necessary growth of small and medium scale industry in the countryside. Such a base is also necessary for the development in Pakistan of a technological change capability. It would also be in accordance with the highest traditions of the Pakistan Peoples Party which alone can take the credit for the setting up of the Heavy Mechanical Complex and the Steel Mill.

Our primary objective in the economic field will be to remove poverty and ensure an equitable distribution of the benefits of growth across all segments of society and regions of Pakistan.

17.1 Our government will rely on the private sector to spearhead development while the role of the public sector will be essentially in building infrastructure.

17.2 We will treat all public funds and resources as the nation’s "AMANAT" that will be used only in the interest and for the benefit of the people of Pakistan. we shall eliminate wasteful expenditures and corruption from government.

17.3 We shall dismantle the existing plethora of rules and regulations which gave generated inefficiencies stifling the private enterprises, encouraged corruption and given unjustified windfall gains to chose recipients of permits and licenses.

17.4 We will eradicate all remaining vestiges of discrimination and economic injustices, to achieve an atmosphere of harmonious cooperation between all provinces and social classes, to establish solid foundations of our national unity. To achieve these primary objectives, we make a commitment of sustained and comprehensive implementation of an integrated set of policies, characterized by objective of growth, equity and self reliance.

We will pursue foremost, the achievement of a high and sustained rate of overall economic growth, well in excess of the existing rate of population growth. We will pursue a development strategy which will achieve growth with better utilization of the country’s two main natural resources, manpower and land together with a widespread and accelerated application of modern technology in all sectors of the economy. Consistent with this aim, we will provide equal production incentives in both agricultural and industrial sectors.

Macroeconomics policy will be characterized by strict financial discipline. There will be a sharp reduction in the budgetary and external imbalances that exist today due to the irresponsible spending and waste of the last 11 years. Fiscal policy will be formulated to increase revenue through a reform of the tax system. On the expenditure side, allocate priorities will be totally reversed from those existing now, with a multifold increase in allocation for the social sectors (education, health, manpower, development, urban development, housing and sanitation).

Monetary policy will be directed towards increased savings. Financial discipline will necessarily result in an improvement of the external balance of payments positions and restoration of foreign exchange reserves, which will serve our objective of greater self reliance.

Greater reliance will be placed on domestic resources to achieve independence from the dictates of foreign bilateral creditors although multilateral sources of capital will continue to be tapped. To make this possible our government will give high priority to an enhanced export promotion drive.

We believe that if appropriate policies are pursued it is not necessary to sacrifice equity for growth or vice versa. Hence our government will give high priority to the distribution of the gains of growth through ensuring a broad participation of the people of Pakistan, including a more active role for women, in the development process.

Our domestic saving is one off the lowest in South Asia and can not support our development program without resort to external borrowings. In order to increase the level of domestic savings and reduce our dependence on external borrowing we would undertake institutional and policy reform to remove shortcomings in the structure of the domestic financial system (i.e. institutions, instruments and returns / markups). The reforms would be geared towards encouraging the habit of saving among the people and at the same time inducing such saving into financial assets with high social returns rather than in unproductive and speculative assets with low social returns.

20.1 Credit for All: Credit lines would be opened to small businessmen who are presently forced to borrow from the informal money markets. Investment would be made in modern technology to offer a wider range of banking services to customers. Loans written off without adherence to accepted banking norms will be scrutinized and amendments would be made in banking laws to effect recoveries.

20.2 Innovative Capital Markets: We believe that efficient financial markets are essential for capital formation and economic growth. We should expand the role of financial intermediaries in the system with the aim of expanding the size and depth of our money and capital markets. We would create an environment to stimulate innovation in financial institutions both to design new attractive saving schemes / products and in building up mechanism to deploy such savings productively and effeci3ntly. The regulatory framework would be strengthened to protect investors from unscrupulous separators.

It is estimated that hundreds of millions of dollarsare held by Pakistani national in form of bank deposits abroad. The source of this money is savings of overseas Pakistanis who feel that there is lack of investment opportunities in their own country. Money invested by wealthy Pakistani is a hedge against economic and political uncertainty in Pakistan.

we will channel at least part of these funds back into Pakistan by creating appropriate conditions of investments.

We will create stable conditions and an economic environment where investors feel safe about their investments and induce a large proportion of funds into our country.

Pakistani banks and financial institutes would be allowed to offer foreign exchange deposit facilities to all. Accordingly in addition to the relaxation of foreign exchange regulation in respect of foreign currency deposits, the foreign exchange bearer certificates shall be convertible into any currency. The user of such certificates will encash them at the exchange rate prevailing on the date if issue which will appear on the certificate.

International brokerage houses would be encouraged to underwrite and participate in the foreign currency mutual funds overseas. The proceeds from these funds will be earmarked for investment in large scale industrial projects.

20.3 Liquidation of Fraudulent Investment Companies: People have been deprived of hundreds of millions of their savings through fraudulent investment companies, which were allowed to collect fund under the direct patronage of the highest functionaries of the state. The Party will make every effort to recover these funds.
 

The PPP will make up for the lost time and opportunity in the industrial and mining sectors by adopting the following policies:

21.1 There will be no nationalization of industries.

21.2 There will be no de-nationalization of enterprises, except through -Privatization - offer for sale of government shares within prescribed limits to small share holders and workers.

21.3 Provision of physical and social infrastructure, integral part of the party’s fundamental program to ensure rapid industrialization of the country as a whole.

21.4 High priority would be given to basic industries like steel mills, heavy engineering complexes, chemical and petrochemical plants as well as industries based on basic metals. We will set up steel making units based on indigenous ores in Kalabagh, Chagai and Swat / Chitral. we will invest in new nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizer plants. We will lay a network of pipelines to connect oil fields with refineries using locally produced pipes. We will encourage the involvement of the private sector as it partner in achieving the objective of setting up the above mentioned basic industrial units.

21.5 We will provide incentives to raise the level of technology in our industries. High technology industries to produce electronic components, machinery and other capital goods would be encouraged with a view to using to the maximum possible extent, locally produced capital equipment for our massive industrialization program.

21.6 A special program for accelerated development of the NWFP and Baluchistan will be devised and implemented. Special emphasis would be laid on developing commercial use of large mineral deposits found in the two provinces.

21.7 Saindak: We will speedily implement the Saindak Integrated Mineral Project and overcome environmental constraints. The mining sector other areas will be expanded and known mineral deposits will be developed.

21.8 Private Sector: The Party will encourage the private sector to come forward and play its due role in the industrial development of the country. Industrial sanctioning procedures will be simplifies, applications disposed off speedily and powers transferred to the provinces. the objective will be to free the private sector from bureaucratic controls and give them the opportunity to fully realize their creative potential, remaining mindful of their responsibility to society in general and the working class in particular.

The government will encourage the setting up of large scale industrial units in the private sector by providing finance for such industrial units through its financial institutions. Projects with capital cost up to Rs. 1000million would be provided loans according to an agreed debt equity formula. Projects with capital cost above Rs. 1000 million would require equity participation from the government unless the investors are able to arrange additional finance through foreign participation either through loans or equity capital.

21.9 Efficient Public Sector: The existing situation must be corrected. Workers will be made partners with the State in the ownership of public sector units so as to raise over all efficiency levels.

The public sector will be strengthened. Management will be entrusted to professionals ad greater financial and operating autonomy will be given to units along with better incentives. Full accountability will be ensured. Elected representatives will be on their boards of directors. A select committee of Parliament will supervise and coordinate their activities to ensure that the interests of labor, the consumer and the nation at large are well served. Local labor will be encouraged and outside labor only appointed when no equivalent is available locally.

21.10 Proliferation of Small Scale Industries: The setting up of small scale units will be encouraged as they are more labor intensive and generate greater employment opportunities. Amendments will be these units and their credit ceilings will be enhanced.

We will encourage the setting up of small factories and workshops to be established by artisans, craftsmen, engineers and skilled workers. Infrastructure such as purpose built sheds, power and workshop equipment will be supplied at subsidized rates and assistance given to the marketing of these goods.

21.11 Harmonious Labor - Management Coordination: We will work jointly with labor and management to set up programs to raise the level of productivity of both thereby increasing the price competitiveness of our goods in export market and the level of efficiency of the economy in general.

21.12 Peoples Finance Corporation (Small Business Corporation): Loan scheme for self employment for providing loans tot he self employed persons such as rickshaw drivers, taxi drivers, hawkers, washermen, cobblers etc. will be introduced, so as to enable them to purchase equipment and acquire working capital.

This corporation will be directed to implement the scheme. Rs. 500 million will be straight away allocated to the corporation for providing loans tot he deserving applicants.

21.13 Manufacture in Pakistan: We will ensure that all the essential equipment required foe the massive development program in heavy engineering as well as the light engineering fields in manufactured in Pakistan. local industries will be protected against smuggled goods and free import of consumer items, keeping in view that competition must remain and stimulate production of quality goods for local consumption and exports. Conspicuous consumption and lavish life style will be discouraged by making suitable legislation and setting of personal example by leaders in government and the party.

In the determination of wages, worker’s legitimate rights would be fully protected. At the same time , full account will be taken of the direct consequences that wage developments have for the choice of techniques in production and for the competitiveness of a country’s export and import substitutes. Our government will provide an incomes policy which will set guidelines for wage determination based on productivity changes that will ensure adequate wages and protect profitability. The official income policy will be supplemented with a labor policy which will protect the just rights of both employers and employees.

We believe that the tax system at all levels of the government should be fair, equitable and conducive to rapid development. The tax payer and the people must share in a harmonious partnership for over all growth and distributive justice. The logic of high corporate and income tax is rooted in a paranoid distrust between the government and the tax payer; in most cases the tax collector in the principal beneficiary. Similarly endless exemptions in the tax law increases the discretionary authority of the officers and consequently lead to misuse the graft. The business community has a legitimate grievance against the high handiness of the tax collecting authorities, as the system is skewed in favor of the dishonest on both sides and honest elements are treated as persona non grata.

The Party is determined to overhaul the system and bring about changes which will lead to fair practices, rational tax slab, curtailment of discretionary powers and growth of business and industry.

We will introduce new fiscal measures to discourage the creation of black money and expand the monetised sector. Bold initiatives will be taken to create confidence in the businessmen in the economic management of the country, so that foreign exchange out flow is stopped; transactions made easier and inflow of foreign exchange is enhanced.

No income tax will be levied on widows and government pensioners from their income of pension funds, government securities and rental of one residential property. Wealth tax laws will be reviewed.

As a general principle of our policies in all sectors of the economy, our government will endeavor to simplify procedures, eradicate red tapism, eliminate rules and regulations which obstruct private initiatives and engender corruption and bribery. Quantitative restrictions and licenses which create distortions in resource allocations and produce arbitrary and windfall profits for a few will be either eliminated or replaced by more efficient price related mechanisms.

We plan to make our country a major exporter of agricultural products within a short period. Our government will strive to increase agricultural production, relying to a large extent on private investment to achieve the objectives.

25.1 Transformation of Rural Condition: We will provide State land to the land less and ensure that it is arable. We will also ensure that the land in given to them with a range of rural services, such as credit facilities, seed and fertilizers, crop insurance and modern farm technology.

25.2 Special incentives will be provided for industries in the rural areas.

25.3 The vast majority of the people in the mountainous areas are snowbound and cut off from civilization for almost half the year. This condition will be changed by providing access to energy, better roads and introducing income generating activities.

25.4 We will put in our maximum effort to provide in the shortest possible time the basic amenities for all people food, nutrition, drinking water, schooling, education, health care, employment, housing in organized, clean and hygienic localities.

25.5 Our development programs will raise the required finances, as well as ensure that resources are more efficiently managed. There will be a rationalization of expenditures and financial discipline will be introduced. Discipline will be required by the rich and the powerful to live austerely, so that the benefits of economy growth are shared by all.

25.6 It is entirely within the capacity of Pakistan’s resources to solve the food problem. Our approach will be based on striking a sound balance between agriculture and the rest of the economy.

25.7 We will use all available resources and create new cultivable lands in remote areas. Channels, rivers and underground water resources will be harnessed for irrigation. We will undertake scientific plant breeding, resort to effective soil management, improve plant protection, upgrade animal breeds, modernize marketing, reduce waste, and develop an institutional framework to serve the small farmers in particular.

The Party is committed to the abolition of feudalism by destroying its political and economic stranglehold over Haris and Mazaras and agricultural workers.

26.1 We will effectively implement the comprehensive lad reforms program, as envisaged in the National Charter for the Peasants of Pakistan, signed by Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in December 1976.

26.2 Land resumed under different acts and regulations by the Peoples government and still continuing under the unauthorized possession of the big landlords will be withdrawn and distributed amongst the deserving local cultivators.

26.3 Land Reforms Act 1977 will be enforced.

26.4 Full ownership rights will be given to the tillers of the soil i.e. Haris and Mazaras, who presently hold lands as Benamdars.

26.5 All cultivable state land, irrigated or un-irrigated and all kacha land donated or leased which has not been reserved for public purpose, shall be distribute with full ownership rights among local peasants who own no land.

26.6 All occupancy tenants of state land, who were not granted ownership rights earlier, shall be declared owners of State land in their cultivating possession.

26.7 Loan for Agriculture Purposes Act 1973 will be strictly implemented.

26.8 The question of land tenure will be reviewed according to objective realities every five years.

27.1 Forests: The main object of forest management policies will be maximum public welfare rather than maximum yield. Short term profit will not be a parameter in determining forest management policy.

27.2 Fisheries Development: We will ensure that the small fisherman is not left at the mercy of mole holders, money lenders, exporters and other intermediaries. The economic and social levels of the fishing communities will be improved, while ensuring additional supplies of protein tot he population. Fisher men will be provided modern equipment to improve their catch, and they will be provided protection on the high sea.

27.3 Livestock Development: Modern technology will be introduced to develop livestock. Cattle produce and dairy farms will be supported.

The Party has involved the following program for small farmers:

28.1 Social Security: We will provide Haris and Muzaras and all agricultural workers, old age benefits and rights to social security as in the case of industrial workers.

28.2 Crop Insurance: Crop insurance will be introduced as a protection against crop failures due to adverse weather conditions.

28.3 Fair Price and Availability of Farm Produce: After the abolition of all subsidies on inputs, we will endeavor to have realistic price levels protecting farmers from international price fluctuation. If the farmers are asked to pay international prices for their inputs, they will be entitled to receive competitive international process for their produce.

28.4 Cotton Policy: An integrated and comprehensive national cotton policy will be evolved which will be ensure more value-added in the spinning, weaving and finishing of cloth. We will ensure a guaranteed price to the grower. The cotton crop will be largely absorbed at home, by setting up of spinning, weaving and finishing industries in the districts in which cotton is grown to encourage value added exports.

28.5 Land Improvement: Mobile soil analysis laboratories will be put up at all tehsil headquarters. Watershed management will be undertaken on an expanded scale with the active participation of the farmer. Lands will be rectangulated wherever not previously done.

28.6 Flood Management: Flood damages will be avoided by adequate flood warning systems integrated with effective flood retention, flood diversion and reliable and fully understood flood protection systems.

28.7 Infrastructure Facilities for Marketing: We will create a firm foundation for agricultural and rural progress by providing the marketing, storage and processing facilities, provision of credit and production supplies. The development of local organizations will be given top priority.

28.8 No village will be more than 3 miles from Surface Road: High priority will be given to the provision of rural link roads, so that no village is more than three miles form a surface road.

28.9 Agricultural Credit linked with Input and marketing: Small farmers will have ready access to institutional credit. Agricultural credit institutions will be strengthened and will ensure that they operate policies and procedures which benefit the small farmers directly.

28.10 Farmers Cooperatives: Liberal concessions and loan facilities will be provided tot he Voluntary Farmers cooperatives to encourage farming on a cooperative basis. Our aim is to provide loans for the sons of subsistence farmers and mazdoors so that they may become economically self reliant.

28.11 Integrated Rural Development Program: The scope of the integrated rural development program will be expanded and administered through local bodies.

Fully 98 % of the world’s people have already achieved educational standards significantly higher than ours and our competitive position if the world has been greatly eroded as a result. If this situation is not addressed with the utmost resolve and urgency, then we will become a permanently disadvantaged nation in the world community.

PPP is resolved, therefore, to accord the highest priority to education. The principal aim of PPP’s educational policy will be to ensure that every child receives at least 10 years of formal education. At the same time, PPP will make every effort to ensure that academic standards of higher education are raised to international levels.

29.1 Larger Objectives

The peoples government will also take the following measures:

30.1 All student leaders and activists will be released from detention.
30.2 Narcotics and arms will be banished from educational institutions. Suitable rehabilitation centers for addicts will be opened at all district hospitals.
30.3 Scholarships and financial assistance will be available to deserving students on a much larger scale.
30.4 Sports and extra curricular activities will be given special attention and their scope will be enhanced.
30.5 The inclusion of sports an recreation facilities and public parks in town planing and new housing projects will be made a necessary condition for approval of the projects.
30.6 Sports complexes will be made in all tehsils of the country.
30.7 Sports administration will be decentralized and made autonomous.
30.8 Well managed hostels will be provided in all higher educational institutions.
30.9 Universities will have full time counselors to assist students with career planning.

Culture and language binds our people to their tradition and history. It has a central place in our daily life. It is essential to bring suitable changes to satisfy the needs of the people.

Culture is the manifestation of the cumulative experience of the community. For the successful development of society and expansion ofd consciousness it is essential that creative talents are nurtured like a young and tender sapling.

Pakistan Peoples Party is determined to give back to the people their right to expression, in prose, in verse and in all other art forms.

The party will take following measures towards the development of culture:

31.1 TV programs in all languages of Pakistan including Seraiki will be started.
31.2 Permanent multipurpose cultural exhibition halls will be built in every provincial capital.
31.3 Every year cultural competitions and fairs will be held with participants from all provinces.
31.4 Regional languages and their literature will be encouraged.
31.5 To place Pakistan in the competitive world, English the international language of computer and technology will be taught at primary level and special courses in English will be undertaken for students form rural schools at the university and professional college level.
31.6 Translation bureaus will be set up to translate the work of authors in different languages, in Urdu and other regional languages.

Technology in its day to day use makes transference of belief system from mythical to logical and verifiable. We believe that the neglect of Science and Technology has been a cardinal reason for our backwardness.

Science and Technology will be given a paramount place in the development of the country. Scientific methods will be adopted in our decision making and approach to development.

32.1 Institute of Science and Technology: We will set up a world class Institute of Science and Technology.

32.2 Technologies of Today and Tomorrow: We will evolve our own strategy tied to the technologies of today and tomorrow. We will concentrate on looking for the emergence of new technologies and find ways to acquire them at the right stage. We will acquire technology in the field of energy, electronics and micro electronics, computers and bio-technology. We will endeavor in a new direction and on a gigantic scale.

Pakistan has logged far behind in developing energy sources. Consequently progress has been hampered.

Following actions will be taken:

33.1 The energy requirements will be met by undertaking a comprehensive integrated plan to that the nation is able to produce 40,000 MW of electricity by the end of the century.
33.2 This will facilitate development of the hydro-electric resources and setting up of thermal power plants based on gas and coal. Expeditious development of Lakhra and coal mines will be undertaken. We will have micro and mini hydraulic power stations. Wind generators will also be installed, wherever feasible, in the coastal areas. The unwieldy structure of WAPDA will be reorganized to minimize energy losses.
33.3 Oil and Gas: We will accelerate the development of the already discovered Oil and Gas resources on most scientific lines and special attention will be paid for the development f Dhodak Oil Fields. We will promote exploration activity as we consider this investment necessary to remove the huge drain on foreign exchange on account of import of fuel.
Prices of petroleum and its products will be rationalized and the benefits of lower international price of crude oil will be passed on to the consumer.
33.4 Nuclear Policy: We are committed to a peaceful nuclear program for energy purposes and economic development of Pakistan. while it is difficult for us to unilaterally sign the nuclear proliferation treaty, we are prepared to examine bilateral response to this question in the regional context. We would like to see a nuclear weapons free zone in the Indian Ocean.

34.1 Tarbela will be made fully functional and we will establish a reservoir release pattern to maximize the utilization of the irrigation water.

34.2 The issue of judicious and equitable apportionment of the Indus water would be resolved amicably and expeditiously having regards to historic obligations and coordinated and timely availability of various sources of water.

34.3 We will build at least two dams upstream of Tarbela at Basha and Dasu.

34.4 We will start studies on other sites such as Sakardu and Sehwan on the Rover Indus and other rivers for small dams.

The country’s transport and communication system is absolute and is an obstacle for development. We will implement the following program:

35.1 Transport: Our program will create a revolution in transportation for the people. We will provide rapid, convenient, clean and economical transport to the citizens in the major cities within two years. For the movement of goods inland navigation system will be activated. Scientific and regulated traffic systems will be instituted and policed. We will make all out effort to cut down road accidents.
35.2 Transport System for Major Cities: Transport facilities in metropolitan cities are grossly inadequate causing he highest rate of fatal accidents in the whole Asia. The Peoples Government will implement:
35.2.1 Rapid transit subway in congested down town areas.
35.2.2 Light rail system connecting suburbs with central areas.
35.2.3 Two car electric trolley buses linking the industrial and residential areas.
35.3 Highway Accidents: Accidents on our highways are taking high toll of lives. Modern methods of traffic control would be introduced.
35.4 Telecommunications - Links with the World: Lack of telecommunication systems in one of the major constraints to development. For modernization effective telecommunication system is imperative. We will make massive investments in telecommunication sector to ensure induction of modern technology. Unnecessary controls in the acquisition of technology will be removed.

We shall also ensure that all the required telecommunications equipment is manufactured in Pakistan, access to technology is gained and employment is provided for the people. We intend to improve the telephone system quantitatively and qualitatively.

We will ensure that there are public telephone booths at all convenient places in all cities and towns. We will also ensure that in the rural areas every village is connected to the national telephone system. To expand the inland Telephone Network, participation of the private sector will be encouraged. Fax facility will be available at low cost. Walky talkies will be made available in public vehicles, hospitals, community centers and for ship for shore communications and so such organizations where it is deemed necessary.

35.5 Railways and Roads - Reaching the People: We will embark on a fully integrated communication system integrating roads highways, railways, airlines, city transport and rapid transit, waterways and telecommunications into a well knit and efficient network for the transportation of goods and people, conducive to achieving accelerated socio-economic development.

Road construction will be accelerated to open up several inaccessible parts of the country, particularly in the rural areas. We will build new highways and the existing roads will be upgraded.

Inter-city and intra-city public transport is an essential prerequisite for any society today. With our large electricity generation, we will develop electric traction.

The railways will be expanded, made faster, more efficient and assigned a proper role in national economic by embarking on most suitable technological techniques.

35.6 Ports and Shipping - Gateway to Commerce: Ports and shipping sector has been a victim of large scale bungling, non professional management has resulted in huge reduction in number of ships, unemployment of trained people and loss of revenue due to diversion of cargo on other carriers.

We will take following measures:

35.6.1 Enlarge the merchant navy fleet and associate private sector in the development of shipping.
35.6.2 Put the management of the ports and Pakistan National Shipping Corporation under professional control.
35.6.3 Increase the ship building capacity and build ships locally.
35.6.4 Update the Shipping Control Act 1923 to meet the national requirements. 

The Party is committed to provide modern health facilities to every citizen and has evolved a comprehensive policy:

Objectives:-

36.1 Administrative decentralization of the entire health set up by creating an elected district health officer and placing the health department under the control of elected bodies.

36.2 Upgrading of public health services, including school health, maternal and child health, nutrition and the improvement of clean water and waster disposal systems.

36.3 The scope and jurisdiction of social security schemes will be broadened.

36.4 The private health sector will be given incentives to improve and enlarge its scope. Regulation will be formulated in consultation with their associations.

36.5 General practitioners will be part of the main stream of the health care system and incentives will be given to them. They will work in an integrated system enabling access to diagnostic and consultative services.

36.6 Jobs for all medical graduates will be available as soon as they have finished their house jobs and