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PPP Achievements
1993 ~ 1996
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.
Defense
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Agosta submarines for the Pakistan Navy.
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Tanks for the Army, 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.
Oil
and gas exploration
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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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Lying 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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Nearly 100 percent children under the age of five vaccinated
against Polio in three years.
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A large number of Computer Centers 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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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.
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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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
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