The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday presented its agenda to be completed within the first 100 days of government — if the party is elected to power.
PTI leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak and former secretary-general Jahangir Tareen — who was disqualified as a lawmaker by the Supreme Court last year — presented parts of "Imran Khan's First 100 Days Agenda" at an event in Islamabad. The agenda includes transformation in governance, revitalisation of economic growth and ensuring the country's national security.
"A civilised society is not known by how many big houses are constructed in Defence Housing Authorities, or now in Bahria [Town], but how people in the slums live," PTI chief Imran Khan, who spoke towards the end of the ceremony, said before coming to the agenda.
"These 100 days reflect the path for which the country was made," he said.
Khan, making multiple religious references in his address, said that he envisions a Pakistan in which a leader is accountable even for the death of an animal.
All policies under this 100 days agenda will look into how to make education, employment and other basic rights accessible to the common man, said Khan.
Khan said that the temperatures in Pakistan were rising because of climate change which is a reality and that its effects can only be mitigated by planting more trees. He regretted that the party's Billion Tree Tsunami project in KP was criticised by the PML-N despite being acknowledged by international organisations.
Stressing on improvements in governance and service delivery, he criticised the incumbent government for being in a hurry to inaugurate projects using examples of the Orange Line Metro Train in Lahore and the new Islamabad International Airport.
"Have you ever seen Mahatir Mohammad or Nelson Mandela cutting ribbons?" he asked, adding that nation-building, not inauguration of some projects, is the real achievement.
Strengthening the Federation
Qureshi spoke mostly about regional disparities and presented the plan for the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a political reconciliatory process for Balochistan, as well as for the creation of South Punjab province on administrative grounds.