Nov 20: President's Address To The Nation

Society Pakistan & World Affairs
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Way to go President :jhanda:

HIGHLIGHTS TAKEN STRAIGHT FROM NO 1 NEWS SOURCE OF PAKISTAN: JANG-GROUP

  • Musharraf said he will hand power to a civilian prime minister in the next one or two days.

  • White paper would be issued on the performance of the government.

  • Women and minorities were given representation in the government. :biggthumb:

  • We made constitutional amendments so that all the power exercising factors stay under certain degree of checks. They will bar mal-use of powers.

  • **We made example by freeing media in the country unlike in the past government. WE encouraged criticism to all our policies and decision by the media as we believe that freedom of press is essential for the sound survival of democracy.:biggthumb: But, it is distressing to say that some lobbies in the media are working like media managers to miss use that freedom of press. ** :disgust:

  • During our tenure corruption was eradicated to a greater extent from the country.

  • Billions of rupees were embezzled before his government.

  • **All the government institutions including, PIA, WAPDA, Steel Mills and many others were facing bankruptcy and economic slumps. But, thanks to our renewed and reenergized economic policies that they all have improved economically. ** :biggthumb:

  • 35,00000 job after competition of development projects.
    Infrastructure including roads, canals, communication and industries would be improved.

  • Lands would be made cultivatable.

  • Pervez Musharraf said in his televised speech on Wednesday that working on Gawadar project is underway and it will be completed within 3o months. It will pave the ground for our national economy and create chances for employment.

  • He said further that keeping in view the increasing railway accidents in Pakistan double rail track is being installed from Karachi to Khyber.
    Pervez Musharraf said in his speech on Wednesday we did hard to improve Pakistan’s economic conditions that is reflected in the increasing ratio of foreign exchange reserve exchange. We hope this foreign exchange reserve meets the set target of 10 billion dollars.

  • The government has put the country on the right track by pulling it out of the economic slump, sectarian violence and political instability during which several previous governments in the country were dismissed, supreme court was attacked and one chief of the army staff was sent to home.

  • Several government in the country were dismissed, supreme court attacked and one chief of the army staff was sent to home.

  • **Terrorism, religious extremism as well as worst sort of economic crisis had encircled Pakistan. We did hard to get Pakistan out of it." **

  • President highlighted his three year tenure saying he fulfilled all his promises made to the nation.

  • He said that he always spoke truth and held local bodies and general elections on time.

  • President General Pervez Musharraf in his address to the nation on Wednesday congratulated the elected members of the national and provincial assemblies

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President said Pakistan on the right track of ‘Recovery’ :jhanda:

Pakistan Leader Ignores Critics

Pakistan’s military ruler, President Pervez Musharraf, has strongly defended his three years in power and advised a future civilian government to consolidate his reforms.

He was speaking on the eve of a parliamentary vote to elect the country’s first prime minister since the 1999 coup in which he took power.

In a nationwide television address, General Musharraf said he would fulfil his promise to hand over the responsibilities of government “in the next one or two days”.

But he gave absolutely no indication that he was planning to step down, either as the country’s president or the chief of the army.

In fact, **he completely ignored the on-going debate in the newly-elected parliament over his role in a civilian set-up, and the controversial amendments he has introduced to the constitution.

Those include institutionalising the role of the military in the governance of the country.**

**Reforms **

General Musharraf’s speech largely focused on his government’s performance of the last three years.

He described it **as a satisfying experience and said he had been able to put the country’s political and economic system on the right track before fulfilling the promise to hold elections and return the country to democratic rule. **

He said when the military seized power in October 1999, the country was faced with serious political and economic problems.

But during his three-year rule, wide-ranging reforms had been introduced to end corruption and to change the country’s political culture.

Pakistan, he said, had been taken out of troubled waters and it was now time for the new government to consolidate the reforms introduced by his administration.

It is highly unlikely that General Musharraf’s speech on the eve of the election for the new prime minister will end the controversy over the role of the country’s powerful military, once a civilian government is installed.

If anything, it may spark a new and perhaps a bitter debate when the parliament meets on Thursday.

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This is Mr. DJ speaking!

Speeches are always good, easy to make you fool.

DJ wants to know Musharraf's stand on Education, Economy and Stablitiy with Facts and figures!

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Musharraf’s Performance With Facts & Figures

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good work Pakistani tiger :k:

I saw the whole address this morning on Prime.
I was surprised when he said that he’ll hand over the power
withing two days. So who’s gonna be our PM, any bright ideas???

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*Originally posted by Dr.Evil: *
So who's gonna be our PM, any bright ideas???
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Looks like Mir Jamali as Makhdoom Fahim Amin dropped out from the PM race slot.