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Election season is manifesto season. A few days ago, it was the PPP and today, it's the turn of the PML-N to reveal to the voters what it plans to do for them if they win the upcoming election.
Headlined with the slogan "Vote ko izzat do — khidmat ko vote do", the document promises:
- to raise the GDP growth rate to over 7 per cent
- to eliminate poverty by 2030 through welfare programmes
- to create at least 100,000-200,000 jobs
You can see the rest of the claims here.
You might also be interested in knowing if the PML-N succeeded in fulfilling the promises it had made in its 2013 manifesto — check out our data analysis here.
Jahanzeb Hussain read Political Science at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris in France and Simon Fraser University in Canada, and has worked for the Canadian Journal of Development Studies and The Centre for International Governance Innovation, University of Waterloo. He was the Chargé de Mission at the cultural section of the French Embassy in Islamabad, before joining Dawn.com where he is editor Prism. He tweets @hussainjahanzeb
