Prime Minister Jamali’s first address to the Nation. 
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SOURCE - The News International Pakistan
Prime Minister Mir Zaffarullah Jamali addressed the nation take the nation into confidence over its vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution that will authorise a war against Iraq.
Some of the core points of his speech will be put down with the passage of his speech.
Thanks be to Almighty Allah as to this government has completely its four months peacefully. Over the period, I was awaiting anxiously to grab the opportunity and address the nation to elaborate on our so far achievements for the nation’s betterment and our future agenda as well.
The government will continue respecting the provincial autonomy so that the country could go on the path of development to make it a prosperous country.
This government would do all-out efforts to fulfill its promises for national development and welfare made to the nations and come up to the people’s expectations. Power is being transferred to the elected representatives of the nation. Parliament has also much earlier set off working in a streamlined way. However, the major share of the responsibility of power transfer indiscriminately lies on the shoulders of President Pervez Musharraf. Eulogizing the efforts and shrewd sense of responsibility of the president Pervez Musharraf, the prime minister Jamali said the way the president has performed his responsibility of transferring the powers to the representatives of the nations in conformity with the Supreme Court’s decision has no example in the Pakistan’s history. To run the country efficiently and as per the wishes of the nations is purely a role of worthy politicians. And, the elected politicians are doing their best to meet the people’s expectations.
Truth is that the political and democratic institutions have unfortunately never been allowed to grow stable in Pakistan. Some times the marshal law was imposed in the country and some times it (the country) fell prey to the vested-interest groups, never allowing the democracy to survive in the country on continuous basis. Resultantly, This grim situation never let the democracy to take roots in the country. Drawing room politics always continued to dominate the scene. And, dark clouds always were allowed to cover the fact that personalities never last long. The actual matter is of healthy existence of the country as the personalities are ephemeral. However, no matter how much the national institutions are weak, they have to take the responsibility to run the country towards the right direction. Now, the doors to the revengeful politics have been closed. Forgetting the past, we will proceed for the national development and people’s betterment. I made it public as to never political cases will be filed against any political party, nor anyone will victimize on the basis of opposition. But, healthy criticism from any side will be encouraged for keeps and positive and development-oriented initiatives will always be supported. :k: :k: :k:
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Prime Minister of Pakistan Mir Zafarullah Jamali said on Tuesday that his government would fulfill all its promises and work for the welfare of the nation.
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The Prime Minister said that his government would also provide job security to employees. He recalled that Pakistan has a graduate parliament for the first time.
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He said that the government would also give priority to the health and agriculture sectors and added that payments to the growers would also be ensured.
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The Prime Minister said, Pakistan today is confronted with numerous challenges. Poor is getting poorer and the society is faced with the problems of illiteracy, unemployment, health, injustice, corruption, reliance on foreign loans, terrorism and law and order.
“We are launching a national campaign from today to effectively tackle these challenges and hope that all segments of the society will contribute whole-heartedly,” he added.
Jamali said no society could progress without a sense of peace and security. “It will be unrealistic to expect from people to demonstrate their best abilities without feeling secure in their homes, villages and cities.” He said, side by side sense of security, there is a problem of self-respect of the citizen. “Today, there is an atmosphere of insecurity and fear due to lawlessness and terrorism which has made the people indifferent.” He said, international conspiracies and weakness of our law-enforcing agencies were the major obstacles in establishing rule of law.
Subsequently, he said, the common man has lost faith in law and justice and has become oblivious to the matters of national interests with no desire to counter challenges faced by the country.
