Public Safety & Social Order manifesto

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.

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.