• Accelerated large scale industrial development.
• Focus on improvement of industrial and agricultural productivity through adoption of new technologies, more efficient techniques for production, human resource development, and lower inflation

• Concentration on industrial growth.
• Regional industrial clusters to provide employment and opportunities for SMEs

Laying an industrial network in cities to give better employment opportunities

Encouraging industrialisation throughout the country

Focus on industrial revival by developing industrial estates

• A programme of vigorous industrialization and small and medium enterprises to absorb the unemployed labour in the urban and rural areas.
• Development of industrial parks in the under-developed areas

No clear policy

Investment friendly policy to promote fast-paced industrial growth in order to ensure job creation

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• No privatization of profitable industries and strategically important organizations. Revisiting of previously privatised units.
• Protection of employee rights.
• Privatization proceeds to be used in debt retirement, education, healthcare, and public welfare programs

No policy on privatization. Rather talks about management boards, answerable to the parliament, to make these ailing organizations profitable

No clear policy on privatization other than meaningful consultation with trade unions of employees before the privatization of public assets

Restructuring of PSE to be tried first failing which the feasibility for privatization to be examined

• Revamping / privatizing PSEs to reduce losses.
• Identification of enterprises for privatization and completion of the privatization process within the assigned time frame

No Policy on Privatization

No Policy on Privatization

No clear policy on job creation except that the party aims to start schemes like Bacha Khan Employment, Technical Training and Rural Development Schemes in other Provinces.

• The principle of "One Industry One Region" to be followed and necessary facilities and tax exemptions to be provided.
• Provision of economic opportunities to people in their respective regions

Considers employment as one of the basic rights. Aims to provide employment through public and private sector. Aims to provide more employment opportunities to the people (no clear way defined)

• Creation of a level playing fields for educational attainment, health status and employment opportunities.
• Incentivising the investment for labour intensive industries

• Creation of equal employment opportunities through industrial revival and restructuring of employment policies in government departments.
• Employment procedures in government institutions to be made more transparent

• Infrastructure projects to include compulsory job creation. Institutions like Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, Micro Financing Institutions and National & Provincial Rural Support Programmes in job creation and poverty reduction. Incentivising the private sector to create maximum employment An especially designed employment program that to generate jobs at community and neighborhood level through special development initiatives.
• Expansion of the non–farm employment.
• Labor-intensive employment programmes in areas affected by insurgency and natural disasters based on small infrastructure or rehabilitation projects.
• Creation of 3 million new employment opportunities in the public and private sectors including 1 million each in IT sector and in SME sector.
• A National Manpower Plan to match the demand and supply of manpower and provide a basis for periodical adjustments in education and training programmes.
• A comprehensive programme for the full absorption of engineers, scientists and other skilled manpower, including a new National Consultancy Policy for greater use of national consultants, strengthening and expansion of existing scientific institutions, creation of new institutes for modern technologies and making it obligatory for the private industrialists to hire adequate expertise in their respective fields.
• Employment opportunities for qualified doctors by constructing more hospitals, extending soft term, easy installment loans to doctors to establish private clinics; and giving tax concessions for establishment and expansion of private hospitals

• Provision of 1 million jobs each year for the next 5 years.
• People's Employment Programme with two components: the Public Works Programme and the Educated Youth Employment Scheme, providing work guarantees of different types to these two segments of the population

• Encouraging Industrial activity in each district to create employment locally, based on local endowments.
• Focus on agriculture to address the problem of unemployment

Priority to comprehensive projects for self-employment

Self-employment schemes and provision of interest free loans on soft terms

• Interest free loans to peasants to boost agriculture.
• Loans to youth to promote entrepreneurship

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Self employment scheme on equal opportunity basis be launched to facilitate all age groups

Self-employment loans for trainees/apprentices, especially in the information technology and other knowledge-based sectors

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Training programmes, subsidies and monetary incentives to increase opportunities for self-employment for women

Invest in different traditional crafts in the socio economically backward areas of the country to enable workers to create self-employment

Depending upon the availability of natural resource- the principle of "One Industry One Region" to be followed

Provision of land to the landless farmers. Establishment of small industrial units in the rural areas

Incentivising agro-based industries in rural areas

National Policy on Agriculture shall be adopted to create employment in rural areas

• A programme of vigorous industrialization and small and medium enterprises to be undertaken in the urban and rural areas to absorb unemployed labour.
• Maximum emphasis on the programmes of rural development to provide gainful opportunities for income and employment within the rural areas.
• Facilities for encouraging youth social entrepreneurship projects for disadvantaged youth

Jobs to be created for agricultural/rural workers in the off season, involving labour-intensive activities such as canal lining/cleaning, watercourse and public works schemes for embankments and roads

Focus on agriculture to address the problem of unemployment

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Unemployed youth to be given unemployment wage for one year

Provision of allowance to the unemployed

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Establishment of vocational centres providing market based skills and their strengthening with certified staff to provide suitable options for students who are unable to acquire a professional degree.
• More attention on skills development and vocational training at an early stage

Special emphasis to be given to technical and vocational education

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Bringing down unemployment by establishing vocational institutions

Establishment of Technical and Vocational Training Institutes at district and tehsil level with special focus on women and girls in backward areas

• Vocational and technical education to be promoted, especially in rural areas.
• Integration of vocational training with mainstream education.
• Establishment of one world class technology university in every province.
• Priority to expand distance learning programmes in public and private sector educational institutions.
• A programme for the development of technical skills to produce technically trained and employable manpower to be implemented. Intake of polytechnics and vocational schools to be expanded partly by introducing double shifts in the existing institutions and facilities for vocational training and computer literacy created in all high schools and colleges

• Invest further in vocational training.
• Textile Sector Specific Initiatives: Launch a new skills development programme to train 500,000 workers in five years; bring all vocational training institutes under the umbrella of the National Textiles University with a view to introducing quality and standardization in their curricula and syllabus, and to enhance their training capabilities.
• Vocational & Technical Training under Waseela-e-Rozgar programme.
• Strengthening and enhancing the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) and its provincial counterparts to increase skill development

• Reduce demand and supply gap of labour by alignment of skills and education with industrialization.
• Youth benefiting from vocational training programmes to be increased from 300,000 to 2 million per annum

• More attention on skills development and vocational training at an early stage

For better utilization of workforce and to increase their earning capacity, programs for providing on-job trainings to be started in order to increase their earning capacity.
• Special programs to be started for imparting professional training to workers

Not mentioned in the manifesto

No clear policy on technical training other than that "promotion of education and training is vital for poverty alleviation"

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Enactment of necessary legislation making it compulsory for major industries and service providers to ensure proper vocational training for their workers with fiscal incentives for employers.
• Provision of free certified vocational training to those planning to go abroad for employment based on skill gap surveys in destination countries

Provincial and national level training centres to provide nationally recognized and certified courses

No clear policy on technical training other than that "PTI to invest heavily in training"

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Special packages to be introdoced to promote agro-based, cottage, small and medium-size enterprises

Establihsment of small industries in the rural areas

Promotion of SMEs & cottage industries

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Development of SMEs and industrial clusters in various districts and facilitated through one window operation and marketing companies to promote their products within and outside the country.
• A crash program to establish small and medium size industrial enterprises in the Tribal Areas to provide gainful employment to the youth, making them stake-holders in peace and security of these areas

• Plan develop a more robust and focused strategy to meet the needs of SMEs.
• Special credit schemes for youth to start SMEs.
• Leverage the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority to promote business linkages between SMEs and big business

• Promotion of SMEs through finance support systems, technology and market linkages.
• SMEs an integral part of the industrial policy

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

No clear policy on creating linkage with foreign coutries/employment agencies to create employment opportunities for the skilled manpower other than that "workers intending to proceed abroad to be provided free certfied vocational training in areas where skills shortages are observed"

Focus on finding jobs for semi-skilled labour in foreign countries

Develop manpower skills for exports

• Freedom of association and of speech to be guaranteed.
• Trade union functions (protecting labour rights ensuring safety standards amonth others) emphasised. Support to trade unions and review/amendment of laws restricting formation or working of trade unions

• Trade Unions to be allowed to improve employer-employees relations.
• Trade Union leadership to be involved in privatization decisions, budget making, and other related issues

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Review of Industrial Relations Ordinance 2012 in conformity with the constitutional rights and ILO Conventions

• Rights of workers to be ensured.
• Role of collective bargaining agents to be made more effective in view of the relevant ILO Conventions

• Passing of the Trade Unions Act as an umbrella law to address difficulties and anomalies in industrial relations laws.
• Promote the registration of workers, including agriculture and general workers, in trade unions.
• Removal of section 27B of the Banking Companies Ordinance 1962

• Tripartite boards consisting of the employer, labour and inspectors for each sector to be set up at provincial level to review, formulate and implement policies to ensure the freedom of association and collective bargaining among other worker rights.
• These boards to ensure that the competitiveness of a sector is not adversely affected

A chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

A chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

Women to get equal employment opportunities as men. A chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

Does not have an independent chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

A chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

A chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

A chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

A chapter on women rights. More in Women Development Section

Plan to review, legislate and implement child labour laws to ensure that child labour under the age of 16 years is prohibited in all formal and informal sectors including domestic sector

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Effective legislation and implementation of strict punitive measures against child labour

Total prohibition of child labour through effective monitoring and strict enforcement of labour law

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Support of institutional efforts to prevent child labour and rehabilitate child labourers.
• Mechanisms to ensure the elimination of child labour practices.

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Effective legislation and implementation of strict punitive measures against bonded labour.
• Curbing illegal practice of establishing private jails for forced labour

Laws against bonded labour and unpaid labour to be strengthened and effectively enforced

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Promote initiatives to check bonded labour practices and the incidence of internal and external human trafficking.
• Strengthen law enforcement responses

Zero tolerance policy for bonded labour and culprits to be severely dealt with

• Regularly review of minimum wage.
• Minimum wage and other workers' benefits to be comparable to cost of living and inflation rates

• Fair wages and salaries to be fixed for workers. Wages to be indexed to inflation and revised annually.
• Enactment of legislation to make indexation of wages mandatory

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Aims to narrow the gap between wage rise and inflation.
• Public and private sector wage rises must be directly proportional to inflation

The minimum wage for workers to be periodically enhanced

The minimum wage for workers to be gradually enhanced to Rs. 15,000 per month

Minimum wage to be increased to Rs. 18,000 per month, with the wage rate to be adjusted for inflation

Minimum wage to be adjusted with the inflation level in the country and the real earnings of the poorest workers to be protected

• No clear policy mentioned (a comprehensive package of economic, social and legal measures to be proposed to protect workers, labour rights and interests).
• Social security and retirement benefits to be extended to support parents in old age

• Social security system to be devised to distribute adequate allowances to children, old people, widows, orphans, unemployed, and disabled.
• After retirement, pensions to the laborers

• Unemployed to be provided allowance. In addition, old age benefit and disability pension to be provided to the workers.
• Survivors' benefits to be provided to the those workers' families who die during employment

Old age benefits along with health care insurance and disability pension to be provided to employees in public & private sectors

Increase in the old age pension proposed

Provision of social protection for workers as a part of decent work

• Strengthening of social security system, i.e., the EOBI and the Workers Welfare Fund.
• Worker registration in these welfare institutions.
• The Committee on Labour in the provincial assemblies to oversee the working of these institutions and with the power to decide on complaints and petitions it receives.
• Improve the working of Workers Welfare Fund for agricultural and general workers by issuing labour cards

Social Safety net for the unemployed and the infirm (old, disabled) to be provided

• Revision and implementation of labour laws to ensure safe and secure working environment in both formal and informal sectors.
• Workers to have access to the improved health care system

Workers to be provided heallhcare and housing facilities

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Implementation of existing occupational health and safety laws and stheir trengthening

‘Tripartite National and Provincial Productivity Council’ and ‘National Health & Safety Council’ to be set up to raise and develop “productivity” and “preventive safer culture” in the country through joint efforts of the Government, Employer and Workers

• Enactment of laws to enforce occupational health and safety measures.
• OSH laws to be reformed

Policy creation & implementation to ensure occupational safety & health

Protection of rights for informal sector workers

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Legislation on the rights of home-based women workers.
• Home-based workers, domestic workers, farm workers and peasants to be allowed to register for social security after devising appropriate legal mechanisms

Labour law reforms, with assistance from ILO, to protect the vulnerable and exploited labour force

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Contractual employment to be abolished in public and private sectors

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Full enforcement of laws relating to employment of contractual labor

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Interest free loans to be provided to poor peasants

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Strengthening of farmers' organizations through technical and monetary support.
• Representation of farmers' associations on policy making bodies and committees

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Registration of workers, including agriculture and general workers.
• Jobs creation for agricultural workers in the off season, involving labour-intensive activities such as canal lining/cleaning, watercourse and public works schemes for embankments and roads

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Manifesto talks about industrial revival by adoption of an export-led growth strategy howoever no consideration of EPZ workers in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Talks about creation of trade corridors and Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) without talking about the rights of workers

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Workers Welfare Funds to be used exclusively for the welfare of workers and its misuse to be stopped

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Quality improvements in EOBI and other welfare programs with increase in old age benefits pension

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Strengthening of social security, EOBI and Workers Welfare Fund.
• Worker registration in these institutions

Workers Welfare Fund and Workers Profit Participation Fund to be used for providing maximum benefits to the labour employed in the concerns from where the tax is collected

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• For disabled and invalid, sufficient quotas in employments at all levels to be specified.
• Monthly maintenance allowance for fully disabled persons

No provision for job opportunities or skills training other than "provision of reasonable allowance to disabled"

Creation of an industrial-based economy with old age benefits and disability pension

Orphans and children with special needs to be provided wilh incentives and special skills training

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Equality Commission to monitors the implementation of job quotas for minorities, people with disabilities and other communities facing discrimination

• Government to induct 2% PWD at each level of government as long as they qualify the minimum criteria needed to carry out the functions which are required for the position.
• Private sector enterprises to recognize this rule voluntarily for the welfare of the country.
• The subject of PWDs to be dealt through a Division in the Ministry of Human Resources which to be responsible for policy formulation.
• Vocational training center for PWDs at district level

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Laborers to be given reasonable share in corporate profits

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Workers' share to be enhanced to 25 per cent under the Benazir Employees Stock Option Scheme (BESOS)

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

The working of labor courts to be improved

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Workers to be provided health care and housing facilities

Better accommodation facilities to be arranged for workers

Creation of an industrial-based economy and a housing unit after retirement to the low income public and private sector employees

• Cheap Homes Initiative.
• A Government Service Housing Foundation for government employee form Grade 1 to 22 to be introduced to esnure that every public servant has a house on retirement

Development of 1,000 clusters of 500 houses each for lower income families on a public private partnership mode

• Public–private partnership-based labour colonies to provide workers with housing units and community facilities.
• Labour housing complexes in Islamabad and in the provincial capitals.
• Special incentives, including free of cost land and bank credit, to private-sector units for the construction of housing colonies for their workers.
• New units employing more than 50 workers to have a housing colony for workers

Innovative financing measures to facilitate housing needs of the deserving

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Improve coordination at the federal level to address post-18th Amendment issues

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Expand the scope of labour laws to cover FATA, PATA, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Legislate on labour representation in the National (4 seats) and Provincial (2 seats in each) Assemblies

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Effective implementation of legislations enacted for women’s rights and empowerment.
• Repeal all discriminatory laws and policies that infringe on the equal rights of women and their participation in decision making.
• No discriminatory Laws, Regulations, Policy and Code of conduct to be adopted

• Women to enjoy social, legal, and political rights bestowed upon them by Shriah.
• Discrimination against women in the society to be eliminated through changes in societal behaviors and legislation

Women to be treated equal to their male counterparts

Men and women to enjoy equal status in the society and participation in political process without any discrimination

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Respect and dignity granted by Islam to women to be ensured and their property rights protected

Women’s participation in the workplace and to be increased and their rights secured by enforcing antidiscrimination and anti-harassment legislation

Identification and elimination of all discriminatory articles, laws and provisions in the Constitution to ensure equal legal status of women

• Women participation in decision making bodies in Political Parties, Parliament, Provincial Assemblies, local government, public services, superior judiciary, public commissions and boards to be ensured at the minimum of 33%.
• Consensus to be evolved on direct elections for women to all elected positions including on reserved seats/quota

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Women representation to be increased to 50% in the Parliament, provincial assemblies and in the government and semi-government offices

Incorporation of the role of women in influencing the political process from the grassroots to national level

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Reserved quota for women in political parties.
• Enactment of legislation which to require political parties to commit to an additional 10 per cent quota for women while selecting candidates on general seats

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Equal access and opportunities to employment for women.
• Administrative steps to ensure implementation of the existing 10% quota for women

• Restriction in age-limit for govemment and semi-govemment jobs to be relaxed for widows or divorcees.
• Promotion of Cottage industry to enable women to work at home.
• Women to be preferred for teaching in schools at primary level

Women’s right to livelihood is endorsed in all departments

Gradually increase the representation of women to 50 percent in all walks of life, particularly in the Parliament and provincial assemblies and in the government and semi-government offices

No clear policy on job quotas for women other than "fast tracking of women appointees in lower judiciary and elevation of women to the High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan"

• Economic revival policies focus on women and youth.
• Women to be preferred for teaching at the primary education level.
• Women’s participation ratios to be increased in financial institutions, superior judiciary, health and educational management and law enforcement agencies at executive level

Job quotas for women to be increased to 20 per cent, backed by mechanisms for implementation

Female quota in government job be minimum 20%

Provision of technical and financial support to enable women to participate effectively in all spheres of life

The inheritance and ownership rights of women to be enforced

Women to be given inheritance as directed under Shariah law

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Promotion of social justice by formulating women specific policies to address women in conflict, women headed households, rural women & land rights.
• Focus on implementation of women protection laws to enhance its impact on the lives of women & girls

• Encourage participation of women in national development through social, political and economic empowerment.
• Expansion of micro credit for female borrowers combined with special house building credit facilities for widows.
• Inheritance and property rights of female heirs to be

• Strengthening of Benazir Income Support Programme by expanding education, vocational training and health services in coordination with federal agencies, the provinces and line departments.
• Engaging the National Commission for Human Development to target one million women for literacy and education programmes.
• Enactment of progressive pro-female legislation and ensure its implementation at all levels to secure women’s rights to life, dignity, access to resources, employment, inheritance and justice.
• Provision of credit for women entrepreneurs and rural women farmers by encouraging commercial banks to develop their SME portfolio and training women entrepreneurs to set up or expand SME businesses

• Provision of training programmes, subsidies and monetary incentives to increase self-employment opportunities for women.
• National Policy on Home-based Workers and other informal sectors workers to be drafted

• Promulgation of the domestic violence and trafficking in women legislation.
• Ratification of the Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other relevant instruments relating to trafficking of women and children and violence against women.
• Steps to combat Gender Based Violence (GBV).
• Expansion and improvement in the protection and welfare institutions of GBV survivors

• Un-Islamic practices of heavy dowry, marriage with Quran, wanni, Karo-kari, honor killing, etc. to be cllrbed.
• Discrimination against women in the society to be eliminated through changes in societal behaviors and legislation

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Effective legislation and implementation of strict punitive measures against the following: all police/other law enforcement agencies' torture and excesses; confinement without trial; socio-political harassment; social ailments like gender discrimination; sexual harassment; discouragement of female education and their full participation in society as equal citizens; domestic violence; child abuse; rape in vengeance and otherwise and forcing opponent’s womenfolk to march naked on public streets; honour killings; child marriage; Karo Kari, Vinee, marriage to the Holy Quran, acid victims, bonded labour and child labour.

• Policy of behavior change to be advocated.
• Enactment of all pending legislation to protect women victims

• Enact legislation on violence against women and child abuse.
• Elimination of illegal and unjust practices under which women are discriminated

• Enactment of a law on the prevention of acid crimes to safeguard women and on the rights of home-based women workers.
• Legislation against domestic violence to be extended to all of Pakistan

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• A Fair Pay and Fair Job Policy for women to be announced.
• Establishment of an Equality Commission to ensure fair pay

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Mandatory representation of women in all private and public sector boards to be ensured

Significant and meaningful participation of women at all levels to be ensured

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Working women to be provided secure and professional working environment

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Effective legislation and implementation of strict punitive measures against sexual harassment

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Institutional mechanism against harassment of women at workplace to be enforced

Enactment of anti- discrimination and anti-harassment legislation

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Four month matemity leave with full pay.
• Parental leave on half pay to bring up the child.
• Job security during the leave and duty stations not to be changed.
• Women workers to accrue senioirty and remain eligible for pay increases and benefits

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Day Care facilities to be established to support working women to make workplaces women friendly

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Faciliation of working women by providing maternity benefits, flexible timings and transport facilities

Awareness raising about the importance of gender equality through education and media

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

No clear policy on raising awareness on gender equality other than "launching of a massive public awareness campaign, both in urban and rural areas, in collaboration with community participation, to educate masses of their fundamental human rights and means to address them in case of their violation"

Gender aspect to be incorporated in all Party policies

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Strengthening of the relevant Ministries and Departments for Women Development in the Provinces in the post devolution scenario.
• Provincial Commission on the Status of Women (KP) to be made autonomous (financially and administratively) and others to be set up in the other Provinces to be made effective autonomous forums for raising and following up on women’s issues

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Restoration of the Federal and Provincial Ministries for Women.
• Increase in the budget for development under the proposed Ministry of Law,Justice and Human Rights

• More investment in skills development, recreational and employment opportunities for the youth population.
• Emphasis on youth development and creation of suitable employment opportunities.
• Special attention to be paid to addressing the problem of the educated unemployed. Facilities like internship, placement bureaus and advisory organizations to be provided to help them find jobs

• Unemployed youth to be given unemployment wage for one year.
• Merit to be observed strictly in recruitments in public sector

• Provision of employment through public and private sector.
• Piad internships for youth

Career counselling and job placement centres to be introduced

• Formulation of a Youth Employment Strategy with attention to the preparation of an education plan for skills and employability.
• Equal employment opportunities to be created through industrial revival and by rationalizing and restructuring of employment policies in government departments.
• Employment procedures in government institutions to be made more transparent and only merit based appointment to be made.
• Legislation to create opportunities of on-campus jobs/part-time jobs in local industry and private companies for college and university students to support their expenses and reduce financial burden on parents

• Economic revival policy to focus on youth & women.
• Youth training and skill development programme to be initiated to create one million positions for apprenticeship in trade and industry, in collaboration with the private sector to ensure at least one job for every low income family

Legal cover to the National Internship Programme, to be made autonomous with its own board comprising private-sector, industry and media representatives, so that youth internships are not restricted to government organizations

• Focus on employable skills and Placement Service to match students and jobs.
• Rapid industrial growth for creating jobs for two million youth who enter the workforce every year.
• Merit based job system to be established and strictly ensured within allotted Constitutional Quotas

Special incentives for youth such as academic scholarships, exchange visits and trainings both nationally and internationally

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not clearly mentioned in the manifesto

Grants and scholarship to be provided to brilliant students at home and abroad, especially for students who come from financially disadvantaged background

• Provision of affordable and international standard educational opportunities for youth by public-private partnership, affiliation and collaboration with foreign universities.
• Ensure posting of Foreign Scholarship on Higher Education Commission's website to allow open competition among deserving students

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• National Scholarship Programme to allow youth from various provinces, especially less-developed areas, to be integrated into the national mainstream.
• Provide 10,000 scholarships for higher education and specialized technical education for students in FATA and Balochistan

• Scholarships and interest free loans for deserving students to be increased significantly.
• A scholarship system to promote the underprivileged talent in the country to be introduced

Provincial Higher Education Commissions to be established and strengthened

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Higher educational institutions to be autonomous and to be supervised by an autonomous body in the centre

Not mentioned in the manifesto

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) to be made fully autonomous

The Higher Education Commission to be given greater autonomy and the required financial resources to ensure adequate standards in Higher Education and inter provincial coordination in such matters as curriculum and scientific research

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Focus on skills development and vocational training at an early stage

Emphasis on vocational and technical education to help them to earn livelihood

Youth training and skill development to be encouraged

Establishment of vocational training centres to accommodate thousands of matriculates seeking admission

• Integration of technical & vocational education into the technical school stream.
• Skills supply to be matched with market demand through public private partnership.
• Promotion of information technology to enhance opportunities for young people

Enactment of legislation to make it compulsory for industrial and service sectors, with fiscal incentives, to provide proper vocational training to their workers

• Strengthening and enhancing the role of National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) and its provincial counterparts.
• Expansion of the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme.
• Public–private initiative to set up specialized software training centres.
• NADRA to be mandated to include training and capacity building in all its registration centres in the districts

• The youth benefiting from Vocational Training Programmes to be increased from 300,000 to 2 Million per annum.
• Reduce demand and supply gap of labour by alignment of skills and education with industrialization.
• Institutionalization of vocational and technical education

Comprehensive projects for self-employment to be given a priority

Self-employment schemes to be introduced and young people to be provided interest free loans on soft terms

Loans to be given to youth to boost entrepreneurship

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Self employment scheme on equal opportunity basis to be launched to facilitate all age groups

Self-employment loans to be extended to those who complete training / apprenticeship, especially in the information technology and other knowledge-based sectors

• Motivate our youth to contribute to the national economy by encouraging them to set up small businesses.
• Banks to be given the mandate to introduce special schemes to reach out to young people establishing SMEs

Facilitating and mentoring local entrepreneurs by connecting them with experts, business plan formulation and capital generation guidance

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Launch anti-addiction campaign for youth

Anti-addiction campaign to be launched to protect youth from drugs abuse

Provision of drug treatment and rehabilitation facilities to more communities

• Health Care Awareness Campaigns and Drug Abuse Campaigns for youth to be executed under JawanMarkaz.
• Foundation of Rehabilitation Centres for people affected by Terrorism, Drug Abuse, Psychological Disorders

Not mentioned in the manifesto

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Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Encouraging public - private partnership in establishing and running summer camps for youth and students to build inter-provincial harmony

Inter-provincial visits of youth delegations in various disciplines shall be organized through domestic tourism and exchanges

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

A cadre of youth volunteers to be developed in each district in disaster mitigation and management

Training in disaster management to be provided to volunteers

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Services of youth to be utilized in implementation of national literacy programmes

Strengthening of the National Volunteer Movement to assist the government in disaster management, education, health and social welfare activities

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Sports facilities and activities to be made compulsory in all schools and colleges for both boys and girls.
• Sports and recreational complexes to be set up in all districts with special facilities for women

• Sports and entertainment opportunities to be created for the youth.
• Separate grounds and stadiums to be constructed for young women

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Sports grounds, stadiums, schools for performing arts to be provided at all administration units

• Provision of sports facilities in educational institutions to be declared compulsory.
• Sports, arts and music to be introduced through public-private partnership in government schools on an incremental basis

• Provision of scholarships to various educational institutions for the youth excelling in sports.
• Special focus to be given to encourage sporting activities among women and special persons

• Promotion of sports as essential for the character development of youth and for the development of communities.
• Encourage the participation of women in all sporting events held domestically and internationally

• Sports and extra-curricular activities like debates to be emphasized for developing the youth potential.
• Local Sports Leagues to be organized under Jawan Markaz at District and Tehsil level.
• Sports based scholarsbips to be enhanced

Focus on youth development and creation of suitable employment opportunities

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Youth Development Centres to be constructed in every district to enable and empower youth

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Jawan Markaz to be established in every district/tehsil which to be coordinated by Youth Foundation

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Encouraging the participation of youth in parliament through Youth Parliament at the level of Center and Provinces

Youth to be involved in governance at the local level by reserving special seats for them in the Union Councils and District Councils to prepare them for a bigger role in National and Provincial Assemblies

• Youth Councils, statutory bodies, to be set up to promote youth participation in policy making, with representatives from ministries, youth organizations and provincial youth nominees.
• Establish a Youth Parliament at the national and provincial levels, set up by the respective Youth Councils and with regular funding from the government

Allocation of a minimum of 25% parliamentary tickets at provincial and national level to the youth of Pakistan

Instrumentality of education in dealing with the threats of terrorism, extremism and bigotry

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Importance of education in technological progress, social development, and economic growth and its relevance in combatting unemployment and inequality

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Education is the greatest single equalizer in a society and universal education being one of the most important means of reducing mass poverty

Importance of education in eliminating class divides, gender disparities, poverty and unemployment

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Will declare "education emergency"

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

National Education Emergency to be declared to eradicate illiteracy on war footing basis

Treatment of education as national emergency

Declaration of emergency in the education sector

Universal Primary Education is not mentioned as an aim (no clear policy)

The target of 100% literacy to be achieved within 5 years

• Introduction of adult literacy program.
• Illiteracy to end in 20 years

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Enactment of a legislation to provide a road map for achieving 100% enrollment up to the middle level and 80% universal literacy.
• Targets of ‘Education For All (EFA)’ and ‘Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)’ related to education within the given time frame

• Improve adult literacy rates and initiate schemes at the district and tehsil levels local community engagement.
• Raise the adult literacy rate from the current 54 per cent to 85 per cent.
• Start an extended health care and nutrition programme within the school system

Focus on adult literacy for those between 15-30 years of age and provide functional literacy to them

• Special incentives to be given to students in remote districts.
• Classrooms and teachers-students ratio to be rationalized

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Cost of education to be lowered for intermediate and higher level classes.
• High schools to be opened near farms and factories to increase the enrolment from the poor.
• Special schools for poor children with free of charge educational material

• Enrollment campaign to be started in the wake of Article 25-A to provice free education th children between the ages of 5-16 years.
• Free books, uniforms and transport facilities to be provided to school children

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Drop out rate at primary level to be reduced by providing missing facilities in schools and free text books with special incentives for girls

• Assist the provinces in achieving universal enrolment by 2018.
• Intensify efforts to increase school enrolment and to lower dropout rates

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Funds to be earmarked for providing compulsory and free education to every one between the ages of 5 and 15 years.
• Obigation of provinces to use these funds for their right use

Free education till matriculation. All education to be made free within a period of 10 years

Free education from 5-16 years

Plans to enforce the fundamental right of free and compulsory education for children

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Proper fiscal allocations to ensure universal basic education

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• A network of primary and secondary schools in areas easily accessible to children especially girls.
• All high schools to be upgraded to higher secondary schools.
• At least one degree awarding college in each district.
• Every district to be provided an opportunity to establish its own university

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Mass access to education to be ensured.
• No ban on admissions

Encouragement of ‘adopt-a-school’ policy to ensure the role of philanthropists in promoting free education

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Danish Schools to be set up in all provinces

Eliminate gender disparities in education at the primary and secondary levels, especially by providing incentives for girls to enrol in school and vocational institutions

Focus on Girls Education by doubling number of Girls High Schools in 5 years

A minimum of 6% of GDP

5%of GDP

15% of GDP

• Gradual increase in education expenditure to 5% of the GDP.
• Provinces to allocate 20% of their revenue budget to education sector

Not mentioned in the manifesto

4% of GDP by 2018

4.5% of GDP in 5 years

5% of GDP in 5 years

• Elimination of multiple systems of education that protect and perpetuate class and feudal interests.
• Focus on a single system which meets international standards.
• Education in mother tongue.
• Foreign languages also to be taught

• Urdu to be the medium of instruction.
• Provincial and regional languages to be promoted.
• Introduction of uniform education system in both public and private educational institutions

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Dual system of education be abolished with the aim to upgrade the Urdu medium public sector educational institutions at par with the English medium institutions

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Gradual introduction of a uniform system of education to minimize the problems arising from the multiplicity of systems.
• Instruction of foreign languages to be started at early stage

Review and reform language policy with focus on both mother tongue instruction as well as the appropriate introduction of national and international languages (no clear policy on the medium of instruction)

Khud Mukhtar Pakistani one Education System:
• Urdu and/or local languages as medium of instruction in all government and private schools up to grade 8.
• Grade 8-10 to be transition years to shift the medium of instruction to English.
• English to be the medium of instruction for all university and professional education.
• English and Urdu to be taught as compulsory subjects from grade 1-12

• Review and purification of curriculum from hate literature and unwarranted glorification of wars and make it more creative and skills oriented.
• Civic, cultural, peace and environmental education to be made part of school curricula.
• Incorporation of local history and indigenous creative, aesthetic, social, political and cultural icons and legends in the curricula

• Educational curricula to include both religious and worldly subjects.
• Compulsory teaching of the Quran and Hadith up to intermediate level

• Educational curricula to be enlightened with the teachings from Holy Quran and teachings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
• Nothing repugnant to islamic principles to be included in the syllabus

Revision of the syllabi of the public sector and Urdu medium schools for a uniform syllabus

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Need for development of skill-based uniform curriculum to meet the changing requirements of the economy.
• Federal government to assist and coordinate efforts to improve and standardize curricula in different subjects.
• National Curriculum Council to be established to review national curriculum and bring it at par with international standards

• Initiation of comprehensive curriculum and academic reform.
• Stopping the abuse of the educational curriculum by removing hate, violence and references to militancy.
• A comprehensive review of the curriculum to be conducted with the addition of subjects like human rights, ethics, religious tolerance and community work as well as instruction in hygiene, nutrition, reproductive health, environmental protection and sustainability

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Assessment and evaluation/examination system to be rationalised and computerised

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Examination system to be made more rigorous and transparent

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Strengthening of Education sector monitoring through autonomous monitoring and evaluations authorities and use of modern technology.
• Improvement in the Examination system by making it more transparent, reliable and in line with international standards.
• Strengthening of National Testing Service

Appropriate assessment, evaluation and monitoring mechanisms for teachers and students, starting at the provincial level

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Quality teachers training to be institutionalized and promotions linked to training certification.
• Teachers trainings to be based on research oriented modern concepts of child centred education (No clear provision on teachers' salaries)

Provision of housing on ownership to teachers on retirement

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Extensive training and refresher courses for primary and secondary school teachers

Improvement in status of teachers by increasing salaries and teacher training, capacity building for required expertise, incentives, bonuses, health insurance, awards etc.

• Expansion of teacher training facilities in collaboration with the Provincial Governments to improve the quality of education.
• Teaching to be made an attractive profession through recruitment of high caliber teachers and offering better salary, improved service structure and other benefits.
• Training & refresher courses for teachers at all levels.
• Linking of promotion with qualifications & performance

• Familiarize teachers with the new curriculum and provide training for student performance assessment.
• Promotion of learning-centred teaching methods and the development of appropriate teaching materials, including through the use of information and communication technology

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Merit-based recruitment, evaluation and promotion of teaching faculty

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Merit based appointments through a transparent selection process

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Provision of basic facilities in existing primary and secondary schools

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Refurbishing of school buildings, provision of drinking water, washrooms, boundary walls and security arrangements.
• Establishment of a network of public, including digital, libraries

Establishment of public libraries at district/tehsil level

• Upgradation of science laboratories in all secondary schools.
• Computer labs to be established in all secondary schools.
• Provision of laptops to merit students.
• Career counseling services to be introduced in schools, colleges and universities

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Modernization and upgradation of governemnt sector Colleges for near term impact

Vocational centres providing market based skills to be established and strengthened with certified staff (However, it does not solve the image problem as it aims to "provide suitable options for students who are unable to acquire a professional degree")

Special emphasis to be given to technical and vocational education

Technical and vocational training institutions to be opened in large numbers

Promotion of the motto ‘enter to learn’; and ‘go to earn’ especially in vocational schools

• Vocational and Technical education to be introduced in the technical stream of education from 8th Class.
• Establishment of vocational & technical training institutes at the dirstrict and tehsil level with focus on women and girls in the backward areas

• Vocational and technical education to be promoted, especially in rural areas.
• Integration of vocational training with mainstream education 3. Establishment of one world class technology university in every province.
• Priority to expand distance learning programmes in public and private sector educational institutions.
• A programme for the development of technical skills to produce technically trained and employable manpower to be implemented.
• Intake of polytechnics and vocational schools to be expanded partly by introducing double shifts in the existing institutions and facilities for vocational training and computer literacy created in all high schools and colleges

Job market tailored trainings to increase youth employability

Not mentioned in the manifesto

No clear policy although the province has been worst hit by extremist attacks

Teaching of English, Mathematics and other modern subjects to madressah students

Assistance of madressahs for up-gradation and autonomy

Incentives to bring madressahs at par with the main stream of education at national level

Strengthening of the education system in Madressahs by diversification of the curriculum

• Financial assistance and other incentives to Madrassas for briniging their syllabus and standards in conformity with the mainstream education in order to improve the employment prospects of Madrassa graduates.
• Provision of vocational training to encourage entrepreneurship

Madrassa reforms with the help of madrassa councils to modernize the religious education system

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Private educational institutions to be regulated.
• Rational and Objective regulation of private educational institutions

• Private sector investment to be encouraged in Education sector.
• Educational standards and reasonable fee structure to be ensured through legislation

Private Sector educational institutions to be encouraged however these will be regulated without compromising their autonomy

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Fiscal incentives and other support to be provided to encourage private investment in secondary, vocational and higher education in the country

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Merit and need based scholarships for public schools students especially for girls students.
• Merit based research fellowships to MS and PhD students in public universities

Scholarships for deserving students (for professional education only)

Provision of free technical education to poor children

• Grants and scholarships for bright and desrving students.
• Provision of grants for professional colleges so that poor students have to bear less financial burden

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Establishment of Education Endowment Funds in all provinces to award merit scholarships to poor and needy students for higher education

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Need-based voucher system to fund students to go to private schools to fill gaps where government schools are not enough

• Universities to be declared centres of excellence in their areas of research.
• Development of academic linkages with local and international institutions

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• Education standards to be raised to transfrom universities into world class institutions.
• Establishment of higher education institutions in public/private sectors especially in remote areas to increase enrolment.
• Development of linkages with world's top ranked univeristies.
• Technology Development Fund shall be established for HEC returning PHD scholars

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Provincial Higher Education Commissions to be established and strengthened

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Higher Education institutions to be made autonomous and supervised by an autonomous body at the centre

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Higher Education Commission (HEC) to be made fully autonomous

Greater autonomy to the Higher Education Commission with the provision of required financial resources to ensure adequate standards in Higher Education

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

• De-bureaucratize and decentralize educational governance to eliminate political interference and corruption.
• Education task force to provide oversight both in terms of access and governance.
• Elected Parent Teacher Associations with financial freedom for infrastructure development and academic audit for participation of parents in academic excellence of children

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Not mentioned in the manifesto

Introduction of an evaluation system through Key Performance Indicators to be monitored by the Community Management Boards at taluka/tehsil and district level

Standardzation of education curriculum. Examination system and higher education to be made a subject of the Federal Legislative List

• Formulation of Vision 2025 to transform the Pakistani education system.
• Appointment of Vice Chancellors through a transparent merit based process through Search Committees.
• Formulation of an action plan to upgrade the capacity of provincial governments for the effective handling of additional responsibilities entrusted to them under the 18th Amendment, including institutional restructuring to improve educational administration through a Provincial Commission for Higher Education and Establishment of autonomous District Education Authorities (DEAs)

• Creation of a cell within provincial education departments to monitor, coordinate and overview district-wise utilization of the education budget.
• Carry out a survey of makeshift schools, ‘onpaper’ institutions and degraded facilities in order to upgrade facilities and standardize quality.
• Removal of the qualitative gap between public and private schooling and establishment of National Education Standards Council coordination among provinces.
• Greater transparency and accountability in education at the national, provincial and district levels

• Decentralise Service Delivery to Districtn with teacher and staff hiring to be done from within district.
• Community management of schools