LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has identified the PML-N government’s “25 failures” and demanded it should fulfill all its promises made during the party’s campaign for 2013 general elections.

The “fact-sheet” issued by PTI Punjab organiser Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar on Monday mainly listed the government’s alleged failure to eliminate corruption, maintain law and order, curtail unemployment and break the “begging bowl”.

It also referred to continuing energy crisis, higher oil prices despite decline in the world market rates, miseries of the farming community because of fake pesticides, costlier farm inputs and lower support prices of crops and “fake” promises with the low-paid employees about increase in their perks and privileges.

It pointed out that on the education and health fronts too the government was failing to meet the minimum standards as in Punjab alone some 13 million children were still out of schools, while over 18 percent schools in the province lacked basic education facilities.

In the absence of educational opportunities and increasing poverty, some two million youth and children were compelled to do labour and odd jobs instead of seeking education, it said.

It also mentioned that although the health was a fundamental right of the people, there was no health minister in Punjab who could look after the crisis in hospitals across the province. As a result, it said, “women are still giving births on hospital stairs”.

The PTI “fact-sheet” said though the PML-N repeatedly announced changing the “thana culture”, those visiting police stations to seek justice were still being tortured and even killed.

Chaudhry Sarwar said the nation knew the rulers did not fulfill any of their promises after coming into power “earning ire of army, Supreme Court and other national institutions”.

Published in Dawn, December 1st, 2015