Poverty

The overthrow of the PPP government in 1996 led to the impoverishment of the people of Pakistan . For the first time in recorded history, mass unemployment reached such heights that people chose to commit economic suicide because they were unable to feed their families.

A country which under the PPP became one of the ten emerging capital markets of the world, attracting massive foreign investment became a barren landscape. Investors fled from the country as they were unjustly scandalised in politically motivated allegations by hostile regimes seeking to score political points.

The bill was picked up by the unfortunate people of the country whose per capita income fell as the gap between the rich and the poor widened.

The PPP had revenues to build schools, hospitals, roads and provide people with basic amenities. The regimes that replaced it froze foreign accounts, raised utility bills, retrenched hundred of thousands of employees without any benefit to the country. They brazenly cut the budgets that the PPP so painstakingly built for important programs that included education, health, women's empowerment, youth, population control, labour and the rural poor. They did this even as they hired favourites at exorbitant salaries paid in advance.

The PPP Parliamentarians pledges to eradicate poverty by ensuring that the social sector budget is increased as is the Annual Development Plan. It is by investing in our young people that we can build a progressive and prosperous society.