1993-1996

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1993-96

Development

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Built 21,000 primary schools.

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Provided 700,000 new telephone connections.

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Electricity to 18,000 villages.

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Airport at Sehwan Sharif.

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Airport at Gawadur.

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Work on Ketti Bandar Port started.

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Construction of Akra Dam providing safe drinking water to the coastal regions of Mehran.

 

Foreign Policy

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For the first time the OIC summit at Casablanca adopted a unanimous resolution asking for a solution of Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolutions.

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Adoption of Brown Amendment which partially released the military equipment and hardware stuck up in the US since long due to Pressler Law.

 

Law & Order

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Peace in Karachi. A near end to terrorism acknowledged by friends and foes alike.

 

Defence

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Agosta submarines for the Pakistan Navy.

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Tanks for the Army.

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Missile capability developed which was to be announced as the Golden Jubilee gift to the Nation on August 14,1997.

 

Energy

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An end to the load shedding by enlisting the private sector in power development sector through a uniform policy of tariffs and concessions hailed by the World Bank as a model for the developing countries.

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Completion of the first private sector power plant, HUBCO.

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Our 11000 kilometers of gas transmission line completed to provide gas to 240 new  towns and villages.

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Oil and gas exploration stepped up. As a result four new oil and gas wells discovered.

 

Communication

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Laying of the optic fiber along with right bank of Indus.

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Introduced cellular telephones, digital pager, satellite dish and FM Radio.

 

Social Sector

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Countrywide Polio Vaccination Programme-Nearly 100 percent children under the age of five vaccinated against Polio in three years.

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A large number of Computer Centres opened - Special centers for women

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Recruitment of 33,000 Lady Health Visitors to reduce infant mortality.

 

Legislation/Northern Areas

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Electoral reforms bill adopted for the first time.

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For the first time people of Northern Areas given the right to vote.

 

Women Development

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First time Women Police Stations set up, Women Bank opened and Women Judges appointed in superior judiciary.

 

Media

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Complete press freedom.

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Sixth Wage Board award announced for the newspaper workers. The award was also  mplemented in the APP.

 

Finance

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For the first time since independence, Cabinet members were forbidden to take loans from Pakistani Banks.

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State Bank of Pakistan made an autonomous organisation.

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For the first time one billion dollars of debt retired.

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From a dismal growth rate of 2.3% in 1992-93 which it inherited, the PPP government raised the economic growth to 5.2% in 1995-96. The growth rate plunged to 3. I % in 1996-97 after the removal of PPP government, a figure further lowered to 1.3% in the budget.

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Fiscal defcit in the last year of PPP government i.e.1995-96 brought down to 5%, from 8% of GDP which it had inherited.

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Tax revenue which were only 7.2% of GDP in 92-93 was raised to 14. I % of GDP in 1995-96. Last year the tax to GDP ratio again fell to 10.2%.

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Due to investment-oriented policies, more than 3 billion dollars of direct foreign investment flowed into the country. As against this the present government has scared away foreign investment through its mishandling of the IPP issue and freeze on foreign currency accounts.

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A day before the PPP government was dismissal, the stock index was at 1500 points. It sank to 900 points in August 98.

 

Welfare

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Haj flights from Multan and Sukkur.

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Tens of thousands of jobs provided to the educated but unemployed youth in government departments, banks, corporations and autonomous bodies.

 

Anti Narcotics

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Effective anti-narcotics measures and legislation adopted for the first time. 

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Half a dozen major drug barons extradited. 

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Death penalty and confiscation of property provided in the law for drug pushers.



 
Achievements

For the first time since independence, Cabinet members were forbidden to take loans from Pakistani Banks.

 

State Bank of Pakistan made an autonomous organisation.

 

For the first time one billion dollars of debt retired.

 

From a dismal growth rate of 2.3% in 1992-93 which it inherited, the PPP government raised the economic growth to 5.2% in 1995-96. The growth rate plunged to 3. I % in 1996-97 after the removal of PPP government, a figure further lowered to 1.3% in the budget.

 

Fiscal defcit in the last year of PPP government i.e.1995-96 brought down to 5%, from 8% of GDP which it had inherited.

 

Tax revenue which were only 7.2% of GDP in 92-93 was raised to 14. I % of GDP in 1995-96. Last year the tax to GDP ratio again fell to 10.2%.

 

Due to investment-oriented policies, more than 3 billion dollars of direct foreign investment flowed into the country.

 

As against this the present government has scared away foreign investment through its mishandling of the IPP issue and freeze on foreign currency accounts.

 

A day before the PPP government was dismissal, the stock index was at 1500 points. It sank to 900 points in August 98.

 



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