Justice for All. Peace for All. Education for All. Food for All. Healthcare for All. Shelter for All. Employment for All.

Pakistan’s crisis is not merely a shortage of resources. It is a crisis of priorities, governance and public trust. Elite privilege has been protected while ordinary citizens bear the burden of indirect taxation, expensive energy, weak public services, feudal power, unemployment and political patronage. Provincial centralisation has weakened local government, while dependency-based welfare has too often replaced education, skills and dignified livelihoods.

Jamaat-e-Islami seeks to replace this order with a state founded on ‘adl, amanah, shura, constitutional supremacy, human dignity, public accountability and service to the people.

Our governing principle is clear:

The state must serve the people, protect the weak, restrain the powerful, reward productive effort and remain accountable before Allah and the nation.

Pakistan’s national policy must be guided by its constitution and national interests within the  framework of the Qur’an and Sunnah. Laws that conflict with the Qur’an and Sunnah will be reviewed and repealed through constitutional and parliamentary processes. The Finality of Prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ and the honour of all Prophets will be protected. The constitutional jurisdiction and decisions of the Federal Shariat Court will be respected and implemented, and obstructive litigation intended only to delay their enforcement will be prevented through appropriate legal reform.

Parliament will remain the supreme representative institution for democracy and civilian rule. It shall strictly function under the sphere of preamble of the Constitution. International strategic, trade, economic, defence and educational agreements will require parliamentary scrutiny and final approval. The Election Commission will be granted genuine administrative, financial and adjudicatory autonomy. Consensus will be pursued on proportional representation, while an independent constitutional mechanism will scrutinise the integrity and eligibility of parliamentary candidates and enforce Articles 62 and 63 without political discrimination.

A parliamentary training academy will build the legislative and policy capacity of elected representatives. Independent think tanks will be encouraged to contribute to policymaking, subject to complete disclosure and audit of foreign funding. Constituency development funds controlled by parliamentarians will be discontinued because they convert public development money into political patronage.

A constitutional chapter and schedule will guarantee regular local-government elections, defined tenures, administrative authority and direct fiscal transfers. National and provincial finance commissions will devolve resources to districts, towns, municipalities and union councils.

The media will be protected from improper governmental, commercial and political pressure. It will be encouraged to promote truth, public accountability and the ethical values of Islamic civilisation. Urdu will become the effective official language of the state and the principal medium of primary education, supported by a carefully designed multilingual transition for further learning.

The National Challenge

Pakistan must create approximately 2.5 million to 3 million jobs each year during the coming decade. Poverty has again risen sharply, while around 25–26 million children remain outside school. At the same time, Pakistan has more than 160 million broadband subscriptions, giving the country a platform for digital education, transparent government and technology-led employment if connectivity is converted into productive capability.

Jamaat-e-Islami’s answer is not another cycle of slogans, loans and elite bargains. It is a national programme of tax justice, affordable energy, empowered local government, productive welfare, education, healthcare, rural development, youth skills, women’s rights, digital capacity and clean governance.

1. Economy and Livelihood

An Economy That Serves People, Not Privilege

Jamaat-e-Islami will pursue an economy in which wealth circulates through productive activity rather than remaining concentrated through monopoly, political influence, interest-based exploitation and privileged access to the state.

A binding Charter of Economy will be prepared through consultation with political parties, economists, industrialists, traders, labour representatives, farmers, Islamic scholars, provincial governments and independent policy institutions. Its purpose will be to establish continuity on taxation, energy, exports, industrialisation, debt reduction, employment and social protection beyond changes of government.

The transition from interest-based finance to an Islamic financial order will be pursued through a phased, legally sound programme. This will include expansion of genuine profit-and-loss sharing, Islamic development finance, interest-free microfinance, agricultural finance, housing finance, Zakat institutions and Shariah-compliant public financing.

Tax Justice

Pakistan’s taxation system will be restructured around the principle that those with the greatest capacity to pay must bear the greatest responsibility.

Jamaat-e-Islami will:

• Exempt monthly salaries up to Rs125,000 from income tax.
• Reduce income-tax rates substantially for salaried persons above that threshold.
• Reduce dependence on indirect taxation that disproportionately burdens poor and middle-income households.
• Pursue a phased reduction of GST on essential economic activity, with a long-term objective of bringing the general rate below 5 percent as fiscal space and documentation improve.
• Eliminate unjust tax exemptions granted to wealthy capitalists, politically connected enterprises, large landowners and the ultra-rich.
• Introduce progressive agricultural income taxation on large landholdings while protecting small cultivators.
• Digitise land and water taxation through e-Malia and e-Abiana.
• Restructure the FBR around documentation, audit capacity, digital enforcement and action against large-scale evasion rather than repeated taxation of the already taxed.
• Publish an annual Tax Expenditure Statement showing every exemption, beneficiary sector and estimated revenue cost.

JI has repeatedly highlighted that ordinary people are taxed through income tax, GST, petrol, electricity, gas, transport and daily necessities from morning until night. This imbalance will end.

Austerity Before Taxation

The government will first impose austerity upon itself before demanding sacrifice from the public.

Non-development expenditure will be reduced by a targeted 30 percent, excluding essential frontline services and national-security operations. Every ministry and public body will be subject to expenditure ceilings and public performance audits.

The following privileges will be abolished or strictly monetised:

• Luxury official vehicles and unrestricted free fuel.
• Multiple residences, excessive protocol and unnecessary foreign travel.
• Post-retirement privileges unrelated to legitimate security needs.
• Luxury entitlements for serving and former presidents, prime ministers, chief ministers, ministers, parliamentary presiding officers, senior judges and high-ranking civil and military officers.

Defence capability will not be weakened. Operational requirements, personnel welfare, indigenous research and national preparedness will be protected. Administrative, ceremonial and non-operational expenditure across all institutions will nevertheless remain subject to parliamentary review.

Energy Reform and Affordable Production

The energy system will be treated as a public-service and economic-growth system, not as a mechanism for guaranteed private profit.

Jamaat-e-Islami will:

1. Abolish the petroleum levy through a phased fiscal adjustment and reduce petrol and diesel toward their genuine import, refining, distribution and tax-adjusted cost.
2. Eliminate punitive slab structures for electricity and gas that penalise ordinary families.
3. Renegotiate or terminate unjust IPP contracts, particularly arrangements requiring payment for electricity that is not consumed.
4. End new long-term capacity-payment commitments without competitive tendering, parliamentary scrutiny and transparent demand forecasting.
5. Review expensive re-gasification and LNG arrangements.
6. Resume and complete viable regional energy initiatives, including the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, subject to national interest and technical feasibility.
7. Restructure WAPDA, LESCO and other distribution companies around loss reduction, transparent procurement and consumer protection. Revise agreements with distros such as K-Electric.
8. Simplify licensing for multiple electricity distributors so consumers are not trapped by geographic monopolies.
9. Reorient NEPRA toward consumer welfare, competition, service standards and public disclosure.
10. Publish all major generation, capacity-payment and fuel-cost contracts.

JI’s IPP campaign has demonstrated that contract scrutiny and renegotiation can save the country enormous sums. The policy objective is to consolidate realised savings, pursue potential savings running into several trillion rupees and permanently close the door to opaque capacity-payment arrangements.

Industrial electricity tariffs will be linked to efficiency and employment creation. Incentives will support industries establishing new production units, increasing lawful electricity consumption, creating jobs and reducing the per-unit burden of unused capacity.

Pakistan will pursue self-reliance in:

• Hydropower and decentralised micro-hydel generation.
• Large-scale nuclear power plants and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) for industrial estates and regional energy hubs.
• Solar-panel and component manufacturing.
• Wind turbines and supporting industries.
• Battery storage and grid-balancing technologies.
• Transmission and distribution equipment.
• Energy-efficient industrial machinery.

Industry, Enterprise and Employment

Pakistan requires productive industrialisation rather than speculative enrichment.

JI will introduce a National Industrial Renewal Programme based on:

• Stable energy prices.
• Predictable taxation.
• Simplified business registration.
• Export finance.
• Technology transfer.
• domestic value addition.
• Industrial clusters linked with universities and technical institutes.
• Priority support for small and medium enterprises.
• Competition enforcement against cartels and profiteering mafias.

Food, cement, sugar, fertiliser, transport, energy and other essential markets will be monitored through an independent competition and price-transparency mechanism. Cartels, artificial shortages, hoarding and politically protected profiteering will face swift prosecution.

Public Enterprises and Privatisation

National assets will not be sold merely to cover fiscal mismanagement or transfer public wealth to connected investors.

Each state-owned enterprise will be assessed under one of four tracks:

Retain and reform → professionally manage → restructure through transparent partnership → close only where no public or strategic purpose remains.

Boards will be selected through open, merit-based procedures. Annual performance contracts, audited accounts, procurement disclosure and professional management will replace political appointments.

Privatisation, where unavoidable, will require parliamentary oversight, competitive valuation, worker protection and safeguards against monopoly formation.

Accountability and Clean Government

An independent accountability system will address bribery, kickbacks, commissions, illicit enrichment, procurement fraud and abuse of authority.

NAB, FIA and other investigative bodies will be restructured to eliminate political interference and retaliatory use. Their heads will be selected through a transparent parliamentary process from persons of proven integrity, competence and independence.

Plea bargaining that allows powerful offenders to retain the benefit of corruption will be abolished. Serious corruption will carry severe punishment, including long imprisonment and, where constitutionally and legally applicable under the principles of Shariah and after the highest standard of due process, the strongest penalties permitted by law.

Public procurement, supplementary grants, development spending and beneficial ownership of government contractors will be published through open digital systems.

Labour, Wages and Productive Dignity

A National Labour Policy will be framed in accordance with the Prophetic principles of dignity, timely wages, fair dealing and protection from exploitation.

The policy will:

• End indefinite daily-wage and contractual employment against permanent posts in public and private institutions.
• Establish inflation-indexed minimum wages.
• Enforce timely salary payments.
• Provide occupational safety and social-security coverage.
• Create mechanisms for workers to share in factory profits through bonuses, share schemes or productivity agreements.
• Strengthen labour courts and collective bargaining.
• Register informal and home-based workers.
• Provide retraining where technology or industrial restructuring displaces labour.

Government and private-sector salaries and pensions will be reviewed annually against inflation and productivity.

An automated pension system will ensure timely payment to retired employees, widows and eligible daughters. Disability-related education, training, accessibility and employment quotas will be strictly enforced.

Productive Welfare, Not Political Dependency

Jamaat-e-Islami will replace patronage-based welfare with a Dignity and Capability Support System.

Direct income support will continue for widows, orphans, persons with severe disabilities, the elderly without income and families facing emergencies. However, able-bodied beneficiaries will be linked with:

• Education.
• Vocational training.
• Health and nutrition.
• Employment placement.
• Small-business finance.
• Agricultural support.
• Digital skills.
• AI-assisted productivity tools.

The national welfare model will shift from cash queues to capability, from political dependency to self-reliance, and from short-term visibility to measurable poverty exit.

Tourism and the Local Economy

Pakistan’s tourism policy will develop more than mountain and adventure destinations. It will include:

• Historical, religious and archaeological tourism.
• Urban culture, food, crafts and commercial life.
• Coastal and ecological tourism.
• Heritage routes and museums.
• Community-run guesthouses and local enterprises.
• Training for guides, transporters and hospitality workers.
• Transparent and fair pricing.
• Security, sanitation and environmental protection.
• Highways, access roads and digital information systems.

Tourist destinations will remain pollution-free, wildlife laws will be enforced and large-scale afforestation will protect watersheds, biodiversity and local livelihoods.

Overseas Pakistanis

Overseas Pakistanis will receive efficient digital and consular services.

Passport, CNIC, domicile and verification processes will be simplified and integrated. Immigration and customs facilitation will be strengthened. Remittance charges will be reduced through competition and digital payment systems.

Pakistani embassies will operate community help desks and serve as cultural, educational and social centres. Overseas Pakistanis will have access to investment facilitation, legal assistance and secure complaint mechanisms.

International Economic Relations

Pakistan will deepen trade, investment, education and technology ties with the Muslim world, especially Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Iran, Malaysia and other friendly states.

Economic and strategic relations with China will be strengthened, and CPEC projects will be completed transparently and efficiently.

Pakistan will develop a deliberate commercial strategy for Central and Southern Africa and South America. Pakistani companies will be supported in entering these markets, while bilateral agreements will prioritise technology transfer, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, engineering services and value-added exports.

Implementation Flow

Fiscal audit → Charter of Economy → Tax and energy legislation → Elite austerity → IPP and SOE restructuring → Industrial and SME investment → Employment expansion → Independent public audit

Core Outcomes

• Lower indirect-tax burden.
• Cheaper and more stable energy.
• Expanded industrial employment.
• Reduced debt dependence.
• Transparent state enterprises.
• Inflation-linked wages and pensions.
• Productive social protection.
• Increased exports and investment.

2. Education Transformation

Education as the Foundation of National Renewal

Pakistan cannot be rebuilt through cash support alone. It requires Education Support, Skills Support and AI Support.

Public expenditure on education will be raised progressively from its present low level toward 4–5 percent of GDP, with funding tied to attendance, learning outcomes, teacher availability, infrastructure and transparent district-level delivery.

Education will be treated as a constitutional right and a national-security priority.

Universal and Compulsory Education

Every child will receive free and compulsory education through matriculation. A focused national guarantee will ensure that every girl receives free education at least through Grade 10, with equal opportunity for college, university, vocational and professional education.

The first national objective will be to enrol every out-of-school child through a district-by-district recovery programme:

Child identification → family engagement → school placement → transport or stipend support → attendance monitoring → learning recovery

No province will be allowed to conceal out-of-school children through weak data.

Rebuilding Public Education

The state will strengthen rather than abandon public education. Outsourcing will not become a cover for governmental withdrawal, privatisation through neglect or transfer of valuable public assets.

Where partnerships are used, they will be transparent, time-bound, outcome-based and publicly audited.

A National School Revival Programme will:

• Rehabilitate buildings, toilets, drinking water, electricity and boundary walls.
• Fill teacher vacancies.
• establish merit-based teacher recruitment and training.
• provide science, computer and vocational laboratories.
• create safe access for girls and children with disabilities.
• convert suitable neglected public properties into schools.

The conversion of neglected civic building in Federal B Area, Karachi into an educational facility provides a practical model: unused public property should become a centre of learning rather than remain encroached, abandoned or commercially captured.

Taleem Card

The Taleem Card, first implemented through JI-led local government in Gulberg Town (Karachi) will be developed as a national, transparent educational-support model.

The initial model provides Rs10,000 to eligible students in Grades 3–8 for uniforms, shoes, stationery and school necessities. It is designed as a paperless and cashless system delivered through a mobile application, with participation already extending across hundreds of schools.

The expanded system will:

• Verify enrolment and attendance.
• transfer support directly for approved educational expenses.
• prevent political selection.
• prioritise low-income families, orphans and children with disabilities.
• publish district-level beneficiary and expenditure data without exposing personal information.

Language, Curriculum and National Identity

Urdu will become the effective official language and the principal medium at primary level. Children must first understand concepts in a language they can comprehend. English and other foreign and local languages will be taught systematically as subjects and gradually used where educationally appropriate.

Curricula will combine:

• Qur’anic ethics and Seerah.
• Constitutional citizenship.
• Science and mathematics.
• History and social understanding.
• Digital and media literacy.
• Environmental responsibility.
• Financial literacy.
• Critical thinking.
• Practical and vocational education.

Islamic identity will not be presented as an isolated subject. Honesty, cleanliness, discipline, service, respect for women, lawful earning, public responsibility and care for creation will be reflected across the educational environment.

Teachers and Institutional Accountability

A National Teacher Development Framework will provide continuous certification, subject training and classroom support.

Teacher attendance, school budgets, infrastructure status and learning results will be available on public dashboards. Community school councils will include parents, teachers, local elected representatives and education specialists.

Education budgets will be audited for actual outcomes. Expenditure announcements without functioning classrooms, teachers and learning will no longer be treated as progress.

Higher Education, Research and Policy Capacity

Universities will be connected to national needs through:

• Applied research funds.
• Industry-university partnerships.
• Public-policy laboratories.
• Agricultural and climate research.
• Medical and pharmaceutical innovation.
• Indigenous defence and engineering research.
• Data science, AI and cybersecurity programmes.
• Entrepreneurship and incubation facilities.

A parliamentary training academy and independently audited think tanks will strengthen evidence-based lawmaking. Foreign-funded research institutions will disclose sources, conditions and conflicts of interest.

Student unions will be restored through regulated, peaceful and democratic elections. Campuses will be protected from weapons, coercion, drugs and party-sponsored violence.

Implementation Flow at Primary Level

Out-of-school child census → education-finance reform → school rehabilitation → teacher recruitment and training → Taleem Card support → curriculum renewal → public learning dashboard

Core Outcomes

• Universal school enrolment.
• Free matric-level education.
• Equal access for girls.
• Reduced household education costs.
• Stronger public schools.
• Skilled and accountable teachers.
• Universities connected with national development.

3. Health and Wellbeing

Healthcare as a Right and an Amanah

Every citizen must have access to essential healthcare regardless of income, location, gender or political affiliation.

Pakistan’s health system will be rebuilt from the neighbourhood upward. Primary health, preventive care, maternal and child health, nutrition, vaccination, clean water, sanitation and mental wellbeing will take precedence over politically visible but inaccessible projects.

Local Primary Healthcare

Local governments will receive defined responsibility and funding for:

• Basic health units (BHU) and dispensaries.
• Maternal and child health centres.
• Vaccination and disease surveillance.
• School health screening.
• Community nutrition.
• Clean drinking water testing.
• Sanitation and vector control.
• Emergency referral and ambulance coordination.

Each union council will maintain a public health profile covering population, maternal health, vaccination, malnutrition, disability and disease patterns.

District Health Networks

Each district will operate an integrated network:

Community worker → BHU → rural health centre or town clinic → district hospital → tertiary referral

Digital patient records and referral tracking will reduce repeated testing, corruption and the loss of patients between institutions.

Essential medicines will be purchased through transparent pooled procurement. Public facilities will display medicine availability, staff rosters and complaint channels.

Maternal, Child and Women’s Health

Maternal and child health will receive protected funding. Services will include:

• Antenatal and postnatal care.
• Skilled birth attendance.
• Emergency obstetric referral.
• Nutrition for mothers and children.
• Family health education within Islamic ethical principles.
• Screening for breast and cervical cancers.
• Safe and dignified women’s health facilities.

Women’s desks in public institutions will include health-service facilitation and complaint support.

Nutrition, Poverty and Household Wellbeing

Food inflation, high energy prices and indirect taxation directly damage health by reducing household expenditure on nutrition, medicine and education.

Economic relief is therefore part of health policy. Lower fuel and electricity costs, fair wages, food-price enforcement and targeted nutrition support will protect family wellbeing.

Welfare beneficiaries facing malnutrition, pregnancy, disability or chronic illness will receive targeted health and food support alongside education and livelihood pathways.

Mental Health, Addiction and Youth Protection

Pakistan requires a national mental-health and addiction strategy.

Educational institutions will receive:

• Drug-prevention programmes.
• Confidential counselling.
• Referral systems.
• Anti-bullying measures.
• Digital and screen-health education.
• Training for teachers and parents.
• Enforcement against drug suppliers around campuses.

Youth policy must protect character, purpose and psychological wellbeing alongside physical health and employment.

Sports, Recreation and Healthy Communities

Federal, provincial and local budgets will expand and rehabilitate sports grounds in every city, town and village.

Young women will receive separate, safe sports and recreational facilities consistent with Islamic values and local needs.

Parks, walking tracks, open-air gyms, children’s areas and neighbourhood recreation will become municipal responsibilities. JI’s practical local-government work, including pocket parks, public gyms, walking paths, playgrounds and vandal-resistant community facilities, provides a replicable model.

Senior Citizens and Persons with Disabilities

Senior citizens will receive:

• Timely pensions.
• Priority counters in public institutions.
• Community health screening.
• Discounted essential medicines and public transport where fiscally possible.
• Home-based assistance for the severely disabled.

Persons with disabilities will have guaranteed access to education, vocational training, public buildings, digital services and employment quotas.

Environmental Health

Large-scale afforestation, wildlife protection, clean tourism, safe water, pollution control and proper solid-waste disposal will be treated as health interventions.

Urban planning will reduce exposure to open sewage, burning waste, unsafe construction, dust and contaminated water.

Implementation Flow

UC health profile → primary-care funding → medicine and staff reform → referral network → maternal and nutrition services → mental-health and addiction response → public performance dashboard

Core Outcomes

• Accessible neighbourhood healthcare.
• Lower maternal and child risk.
• Improved nutrition and prevention.
• Cleaner settlements.
• Drug-free educational environments.
• Healthier youth, women and senior citizens.

4. Public Safety & Social Order

Rule of Law Without Political Discrimination

Public order cannot be reduced to police deployment. It includes constitutional rule, impartial justice, safe streets, reliable municipal services, protection from feudal coercion, secure housing, electoral integrity and national defence.

Police, prosecution and investigation will be separated from political control. Independent inquiries will examine political violence, custodial abuse and election-related misconduct. No ruling party will be permitted to use police or administration to engineer local governments or suppress opponents.

Electoral Integrity and Democratic Mandate

The Election Commission will receive genuine operational autonomy. Election results, polling-station records and consolidation processes will be digitally published.

Administrative pressure, inducements, coercion of elected representatives and manipulation of mayoral or council elections will be criminalised.

JI’s experience in Karachi has shown that a numerical public mandate can be undermined through political and administrative management. The law will therefore protect elected mandates from coercion after the vote.

Empowered Local Government

Article 140-A will be implemented in substance, not merely on paper.

Local governments will receive:

• Constitutionally protected terms.
• Mandatory election schedules.
• Direct shares through national and provincial finance commissions.
• Authority over water, sewerage, roads, streetlights, parks, public spaces, local education, primary health and solid waste.
• Power to prepare local bylaws and enforce municipal regulations.
• Publicly accessible budgets and procurement records.

Building on Jamaat-e-Islami’s nationwide campaign for empowered local governments, citizen consultations and referendums will involve civil society observers including lawyers, doctors, engineers, journalists and academics.

Mega-City Government

Karachi and other urban centres with populations exceeding ten million will receive mega-city status and unified metropolitan governments.

A mega-city government will have authority over:

• Water supply, sewerage, drainage and flood management.
• Solid waste collection, disposal and recycling.
• Roads, traffic management, parking and public transport.
• Land-use planning, zoning, housing and building control.
• Parks, sports grounds, libraries, cultural venues and recreational facilities.
• Fire, rescue, emergency response and disaster coordination.
• Public health, primary healthcare and disease-control services.
• Municipal education, vocational training and community centres.
• Street lighting, public-space maintenance and urban beautification.
• Property taxation, municipal fees and local revenue collection.
• Markets, commercial licensing, food safety and slaughterhouses.
• Environmental enforcement, coastal protection and climate resilience.
• Utility coordination for electricity, gas, telecom and road excavation.
• Local economic development, industrial zones and investment facilitation.
• Heritage conservation, tourism and city branding.
• Community safety, municipal enforcement and coordination with police.
• Graveyards, public toilets, animal control and other essential civic services.
• Metropolitan planning across districts, towns and adjoining urban areas.

Karachi, Lahore and Gwadar will receive a comprehensive, time-bound development plan. Towns and union councils will receive predictable funding rather than discretionary grants controlled by the provincial government.

Neighbourhood Safety and Civic Order

Civic negligence kills. Open manholes, exposed power cables, unsafe digging, overspeeding heavy vehicles, broken roads, dark streets and unmanaged waste will be treated as public-safety failures.

Local safety plans will require:

• Covered and mapped manholes.
• Dedicated utility corridors with inspection covers.
• Coordination before road excavation.
• Enforcement against dumpers and heavy vehicles.
• Streetlighting and pedestrian crossings.
• Safe school zones.
• Public reporting applications.
• Time-bound repair obligations.

The JI local-governance model includes paver rehabilitation, asphalt repair, lane markings, zebra crossings, streetlights, painted kerbs, debris removal, warning boards, cat-eyes, street-name boards, parks and public recreation. These low-cost, visible improvements will become routine municipal standards rather than exceptional projects.

Solid-Waste Reform

Independent and accountable Waste Management Authorities will be established or restructured in every major city, but operational delivery will be decentralised to towns and union councils.

The system will follow:

Waste mapping → door-to-door collection → neighbourhood transfer → scientifically managed disposal → recycling and composting → public expenditure dashboard

Open dumping and waste burning will be prohibited. Payments to contractors will be based on verified service delivery rather than fleet claims or paper records.

Housing and Property Protection

Provincial Real Estate Regulatory Authorities will protect citizens from fraudulent housing schemes, illegal bookings, duplicate allotments and misuse of public land.

Developers will maintain escrow accounts, verified land titles, completion guarantees and public project dashboards. Victims will receive specialised tribunals for time-bound relief.

A national shelter strategy will combine affordable rental housing, incremental housing finance, serviced plots and protection against land fraud without sacrificing agricultural land.

Anti-Feudal Justice

No citizen will require the protection of a landlord, tribal chief or political intermediary to obtain police help, land records, education or public services.

Special protection mechanisms will support victims, witnesses and whistleblowers confronting influential families. Political office will not shield honour killings, forced settlements, land seizure or violence.

Women’s Safety and Social Protection

The state will eradicate practices prohibited by Islam and law, including:

• Forced or excessive dowry demands.
• Marriage to the Qur’an.
• Vani.
• Swara.
• Watta Satta where coercive.
• Karo-Kari.
• Honour killings.
• Denial of inheritance.

Separate women’s facilitation desks will operate in police stations, land offices, hospitals, courts and other public-service institutions. Harassment laws will be enforced, and workplaces (including factories) will provide safety, complaint procedures and protection against retaliation.

Provincial Justice and National Integration

Provinces will have the primary constitutional right to benefit from their natural resources, subject to national solidarity and fair sharing.

The NFC formula will be reviewed to include population, deprivation, development performance, fiscal responsibility and the cost of terrorism. Provinces and local governments that use funds transparently and improve outcomes should receive performance incentives.

Terrorism-affected provinces will receive an increased share. The merged districts of former FATA will receive a protected Special Development Package to bring them toward national standards in education, health, roads, employment and administration.

New provinces may be created on administrative and governance grounds through constitutional consensus, not ethnic division, and must receive resources to reach developed regions.

Unnecessary checkpoints that humiliate citizens and obstruct commerce will be removed. Necessary security points will follow defined rules, oversight and respectful treatment.

The written agreement between the Haqooq Do Gwadar movement and the Balochistan Government will be implemented. Disaffected Baloch and other ethnic groups willing to pursue peaceful politics will be engaged through dignified negotiations, constitutional guarantees, development and integration into the national mainstream.

National Security and Strong Defence

Pakistan’s National Security Policy will be formulated through consultation with Parliament, political and religious parties, defence institutions, foreign-policy experts, economists and representative civil society.

The nuclear programme will be protected and advanced. No internal or external pressure to surrender Pakistan’s nuclear capability will be accepted.

Priority will be given to:

• Indigenous precision-strike and delivery systems.
• Missile, drone and hypersonic-threat early-warning networks.
• Integrated air and missile defence, including counter-UAS and directed-energy systems.
• Cyber warfare, electronic warfare and spectrum-denial capabilities.
• Artificial intelligence for simulations, command support, autonomous systems and battlefield decision-making.
• Space-based observation, navigation, secure communications and missile tracking.
• Quantum-resistant military communications, encryption and resilient command-and-control networks.
• Indigenous loitering munitions, unmanned combat systems and autonomous maritime platforms.
• Advanced passive defence, hardened infrastructure, decoys and survivable basing.
• Domestic development of sensors, radars, propulsion systems, guidance technologies and defence electronics.
• Stronger national defence research, testing, manufacturing and dual-use technology ecosystems.

The armed forces will be equipped with modern technology, while administrative spending remains open to parliamentary oversight.

Appointments of service chiefs will follow seniority, merit, professional record and a constitutionally defined parliamentary process.

No foreign power or international organisation will receive unauthorised access to Pakistan’s land, airspace, maritime domain or confidential intelligence.

Defence cooperation and intelligence-sharing mechanisms will be expanded with friendly Muslim states, including Türkiye, Iran and Malaysia, alongside existing strategic partners.

Independent Foreign Policy

Pakistan’s foreign policy will rest on:

• The supremacy of national and Islamic principles.
• Pakistan’s security and territorial integrity.
• Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.
• Support for Palestine.
• Cooperation across the Muslim world.
• Strategic independence.
• Mutually beneficial trade and technology partnerships.

The state of Jammu and Kashmir remains disputed, including Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Its permanent division through constitutional amendment, diplomatic concession or tacit understanding will not be accepted.

Normal diplomatic and trade relations with India will depend upon genuine progress toward the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, resolution of the dispute and reversal of unilateral measures imposed on the occupied territory.

Pakistan will not recognise Israel or establish diplomatic relations while Palestinian land remains occupied and Palestinians are denied sovereignty and justice.

Relations with the OIC will be strengthened around joint economic, educational, technological and defence strategies.

All international obligations will be honoured in conformity with Pakistan’s Constitution, national interest and Islamic principles.

Implementation Flow

Constitutional reform → police and election autonomy → fiscal devolution → municipal safety standards → property and anti-feudal protection → provincial reconciliation → parliamentary national-security oversight

Core Outcomes

• Impartial justice.
• Protected elections and mandates.
• Functional local governments.
• Safer neighbourhoods.
• Clean cities.
• Protected property buyers.
• Strong provincial inclusion.
• Credible national defence and independent foreign policy.

5. Agriculture & Rural Development

Prosperity for Farmers, Hari and Rural Communities

Agriculture policy will distinguish between powerful landholding elites and small farmers who face debt, water shortage, expensive inputs and weak market access.

Large agricultural incomes will enter the tax system gradually, while small cultivators and subsistence farmers will remain protected.

Interest-Free Agricultural Finance

Interest on agricultural loans will be abolished through a phased shift toward Islamic agricultural finance.

Products will include:

• Interest-free seasonal credit.
• Salam-based crop finance.
• Machinery leasing.
• Cooperative finance.
• Takaful-based crop and livestock protection.
• Special finance for women farmers and rural entrepreneurs.

Affordable Inputs and Fair Markets

Electricity, water, diesel, fertiliser, certified seed and safe pesticides will be supplied at targeted, digitally verified rates.

Retail prices will be printed on fertiliser bags, and digital verification will prevent dealers from overcharging farmers.

Crop markets will be reformed through:

• Electronic price information.
• Transparent auctions.
• Farmer cooperatives.
• Warehousing and receipt finance.
• Cold chains.
• Processing facilities.
• Action against hoarding and cartelisation.

Land for the Landless

Uncultivated state land will be allotted to landless farmers and haris where water is available and cultivation is feasible.

Allotments will be conditional on:

• Personal or cooperative cultivation.
• Prohibition on speculative resale.
• Environmental suitability.
• Defined production requirements.
• Transparent beneficiary selection.

Graduates with viable agricultural, livestock or agro-technology plans may also receive barren land on long-term lease under easy conditions.

Protection of Agricultural Land

New housing societies, commercial schemes and factories will be prohibited on productive orchards and prime agricultural land except where a transparent public-interest assessment establishes unavoidable necessity.

Urban expansion will be redirected toward planned, non-productive land, higher-density development and brownfield redevelopment.

Water and Climate Resilience

A national agricultural water strategy will:

• Digitise Abiana collection.
• Repair canals and watercourses.
• reduce theft and leakage.
• promote drip and sprinkler irrigation.
• support drought- and heat-resilient seeds.
• improve rainwater harvesting.
• protect riverine and wetland ecosystems.
• expand climate and weather advisory services.

Agro-Based Rural Industry

Each agricultural region will develop industries linked to its crops and resources:

• Rice milling and packaging.
• Fruit pulping and cold storage.
• Cotton and textile value addition.
• Dairy and livestock processing.
• Date, olive and oilseed processing.
• Fisheries and coastal products.
• Herbal, medicinal and forest products.

This will create employment near farms, reduce post-harvest losses and slow forced migration to cities.

Comprehensive Rural Development

Every rural district will receive a development plan covering:

• Schools and vocational centres.
• BHUs and maternal health.
• Clean water and sanitation.
• Farm-to-market roads.
• Broadband and mobile coverage.
• Digital land records.
• Sports grounds and community spaces.
• Local government offices.
• Police and justice access.

Rural citizens must not have to migrate simply to obtain basic services.

Ending Wadera and Patronage Control

Development funds will be allocated through transparent formulas and elected local governments rather than feudal intermediaries.

Public schemes will be audited digitally. Land records, water distribution, crop procurement and police services will be protected from political control.

Small farmers, tenants and haris will have access to legal aid and specialised agricultural dispute resolution.

Implementation Flow

Land and farmer registry → interest-free credit → input and water reform → market and storage systems → agro-industry zones → rural services → local audit

Core Outcomes

• Lower farmer debt.
• Affordable inputs.
• Improved yields and water efficiency.
• Secure land access.
• Reduced rural poverty.
• More rural industries and jobs.
• Lower migration pressure on cities.

6. Youth and Women Empowerment

Youth as Pakistan’s National Strength

Pakistan must create millions of new jobs during the coming decade. Youth policy will therefore move beyond ceremonial programmes and provide a complete pathway:

Education → skills → finance → enterprise or employment → mentorship → growth

Bano Qabil: A National Skills Movement

Bano Qabil will be expanded as Jamaat-e-Islami’s flagship model for free, market-relevant education.

The programme has already spread to more than 70 cities, from Gwadar to Gilgit and Karachi to Kashmir. Its national objective is to train two million young people by 2027–2028.

Training areas will include:

• Web and application development.
• Cloud and network technologies.
• Cybersecurity.
• Data science and AI.
• Graphic and product design.
• E-commerce.
• Digital marketing.
• Freelancing.
• Business communication.
• Emerging technical trades.

Training will be linked to certification, internships, freelancing support, placement and entrepreneurship rather than ending with classroom attendance.

Pakistan Digital Programme

Youth will receive:

• Affordable high-speed internet.
• Need-based laptops and computers.
• Digital learning accounts.
• Technical certifications.
• AI productivity tools.
• Access to innovation hubs and incubation centres.

Innovation hubs will help transform engineers, doctors, computer scientists and social-science graduates into business and social-enterprise leaders.

Youth Bank and Entrepreneurship

A Youth Bank or dedicated Islamic youth-finance window will provide:

• Interest-free startup finance.
• Asset-based financing.
• Business-plan support.
• Mentorship.
• Accounting and legal guidance.
• Market access.
• Failure-resolution and second-chance mechanisms.

Priority will be given to businesses that create employment, serve local needs, process domestic resources or develop exportable products.

Z-Connect

Z-Connect will serve as a complete youth platform covering:

• Educational scholarships.
• Domestic and foreign opportunities.
• Employment information.
• Entrepreneurship support.
• Career counselling.
• Sports and fitness.
• Volunteering and community leadership.
• Mentorship and civic participation.

Student Representation

The ban on student unions will be lifted. Elections will be held under codes prohibiting weapons, coercion, ethnic violence, harassment and academic disruption.

Student representation will become a training ground for democratic consultation, debate, service and responsible leadership.

Sports and Recreation

Every city, town and village will receive increased funding for sports grounds and healthy recreation.

Separate and safe sports facilities will be provided for young women. Community parks, gyms and fitness programmes will promote physical and mental health.

Local Employment Rights

Local residents will receive fair access to municipal and lower-tier public employment in their own cities. Karachi’s residents, who carry the fiscal, environmental and infrastructural burden of the country’s largest city, will not be excluded through patronage networks.

Recruitment will remain merit-based while ensuring fair geographic access and transparent quotas.

Women: Rights, Security and Opportunity

Jamaat-e-Islami’s women’s policy is founded on the dignity, rights and responsibilities granted by Islam.

Women will receive free compulsory education through matriculation and equal opportunity in higher, technical and professional education.

Inheritance and Property Rights

Women’s inheritance rights in the property of fathers, husbands and other lawful relations will be enforced immediately.

Land and revenue systems will:

• Record women’s shares automatically.
• notify female heirs.
• prohibit mutation without verified consent.
• provide legal assistance.
• establish time-bound inheritance tribunals.
• penalise coercion and fraudulent surrender of shares.

Candidates for public office who have been judicially found to have denied mothers, sisters, wives or daughters their inheritance will be disqualified. Where courts find attempts to transfer or conceal assets, proportionate travel restrictions and asset-preservation orders may apply.

Ending Un-Islamic Customs

The state will eradicate forced and exploitative practices, including excessive dowry pressure, marriage to the Qur’an, Vani, Swara, coercive Watta Satta, Karo-Kari and honour killing.

Religious scholars, local governments, schools, media and law-enforcement agencies will jointly challenge customs that contradict Islam and violate human dignity.

Safe Work and Public Services

Women’s facilitation desks will be established in every major public institution.

Workplace policies will provide:

• Enforcement of harassment laws.
• Safe complaint mechanisms.
• Protection against retaliation.
• Secure transport where required.
• Suitable working conditions.
• Childcare support in larger institutions.
• Equal access to professional development.
• Respect for Islamic values and personal dignity.

Women’s Economic Participation

Women will receive access to:

• Interest-free enterprise finance.
• Digital and home-based work platforms.
• Bano Qabil training.
• Agricultural and cottage-industry support.
• Cooperative marketing.
• Professional and technical education.
• Safe incubation and mentoring spaces.

Women’s empowerment will not be measured by slogans or elite representation alone. It will be measured through education, ownership, inheritance, safety, skills, income and meaningful participation in society.

Implementation Flow

Youth and women registry → education and skills → safe access and legal rights → interest-free finance → placement or enterprise → mentoring → public outcome tracking