LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) unveiled party manifesto for general elections 2018 on Thursday.
The party manifesto unveiling ceremony was started with the message of former prime minister and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif.
The manifesto encompasses PML-N’s vision ensuring “prosperity of Pakistan”.
PML-N president and former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the party would focus on education, health and employment for the youth.
“The annual growth rate (GDP) will be raised while the budget deficit will be reduced,” it read. Developing socio-economic zones and harnessing the opportunities for China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects are the part of the manifesto.
Moreover, PML-N president promised to introduce interest-free loan programs to ‘eliminate poverty by 2030’.
Shehbaz said that the two million youth would be given technical education so that they may start small business entrepreneurship.
He said that agro-based small industrial units will be started which will employ the rural people and will benefit the farmers significantly.
The PML-N president termed the water crises “a crucial challenge” for Pakistan saying that Diamer-Bhasha dam will be built immediately and would be our top most priority if “we come to power after 2018 general elections”.
Affordable housing schemes for ordinary people will be started, said Shehbaz adding that millions of homes will be built for poor deserving homeless people.
The projects for reliable and affordable public transport to facilitate the public in all provinces of Pakistan will also be the priority of PML-N if comes to power after election 2018, he added.