PML-N’s Five Years and Unfulfilled Promises

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For the first time in the history of Pakistan, a think tank has tracked the promises made by a political party in its Election Manifesto. The think tank is: Policy Research Institute of Market Economy (PRIME, based in Islamabad); and the party is: Pakistan Muslim League (N). The initiative was known as the “PML-N Economic Manifesto Tracking Report” and the funding for it was provided by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an Institute of the USA’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

PRIME, aka Prime Institute prepared and released in total 10 Tracking Reports, the first in January 2014 and the last in January 2018.

I was part of the Tracking Team, but not for the concluding Report. Basically, the idea and the methodology was the brainchild of Ali Salman, Executive Director of the Institute. I did …