Tameer-e-Pakistan
Party is convinced of Pakistan 's destiny. However it requires
cleansing public life and bringing a revolutionary approach to
politics. It urges persons of integrity; honesty and competence
to enter public life to serve the nation develop genuine democracy
in which the people are free to elect their representatives without
duress.
We are confident about our future prosperity and we have the
courage to change and use it to build a better Pakistan. To accomplish
this means more than just a change of government. Our aim is no
less than setting Pakistan's political life on a new course for
the future. It is not the politics of a revolution, but of a fresh
start, the patient rebuilding and renewing of Pakistan.
We want Pakistan as one nation, with shared values and a prosperous
life; strong and sure of itself at home ad abroad; where merit
comes before privileges. We want to do it by making a limited
set of important promises and achieving them. This is the purpose
of the bond of trust we now set in which twenty specific commitments
are put before you. They are our covenant with you. Our case is
simple: that Pakistan can and must be better.
We want a country in which people get on, do well, and make a
success of their lives. We have no time for the politics of envy.
We need more successful entrepreneurs, not fewer of them: but
these opportunities should be for all the people. We want a society
in which ambition and compassion are seen as partners not opponents
- where we value public service as well as material wealth.
Presently our system of government is centralized, inefficient
and bureaucratic, Our citizens cannot assert their basic rights
in our own courts. Most of the political parties are afflicted
by sleaze and prosper on secret funds. There is unquestionably
a national crisis of confidence in our political system, to which
Tameer-e-Pakistan Party will respond in a measured and sensible
way. We have ducked the challenges that confront our country for
too long. It is time to face them. There are no quick fixes, no
instant solutions.
We
believe in a society in which every citizen shares rights and
responsibilities. We recognize that a strong country is built
from the base, not the top. Tameer-e-Pakistan Party believes that
power and opportunity, should be widely distributed or shared.
We want to renew faith in politics through a government that will
govern for the interest of the many, the broad majority of people
who work hard, play be the rules, pay their dues and feel let
down by a political system that gives the breaks to the few, to
an elite at the top, increasingly out of tough with the rest of
us.
We want Pakistan to be governed in a way that brings our country
together, that unites our nation in facing the tough and dangerous
challenges of the economy and changes society in which we must
live honourably. We want a Pakistan in which we all feel part
of it in whose future we all have a stake, in which all children
have equal opportunities without class distinction. The vision
is one of national renewal, a country with drive, purpose and
energy.
Our mission in politics is to rebuild trust between government
and the people. That is the only way democracy can flourish. We
pledge to people of Pakistan a government which shares their hopes
and which will work as partners with and for all our people, not
just the privileged few. This is our contract with the people.
Tameer-e-Pakistan Party membership is open to all Pakistanis
within the country and abroad irrespective of gender, caste and
creed of 18 years of age or above. Our values are: the equal worth
of all with no one cast aside, fairness and justice within strong
communities. Our purpose is to give a different political choice:
the choice is between the failed parties of the past, exhausted
and divided in everything other than their desires to cling on
to power, and a new united and disciplined of the future i.e.
Tameer-e-Pakistan Party. We want to be a national party, supported
by people from all walks of life, from the successful businessman
or woman to the pensioner, civil or military.
Tameer-e-Pakistan Party is for accelerating economic development,
generating employment opportunities for the masses and a better
life for all. It believes in a society where we do not simply
pursue our own individual aims but where we hold many aims in
common and work together to achieve them. How we build the industry
and employment opportunities of the future, how we tackle the
division and in-equality in our society; how we care for and enhance
our environment and quality of life; how we develop modern education
and health services; how we eradicate illiteracy and poverty;
how we create communities that are safe, where mutual respect
and tolerance are the order of the day. These are the things we
must achieve together as a nation through collective leadership.
Survival of Pakistan lies in revival of the ideology of Pakistan
as set by the Founder of the Nation for its future. In his inaugural
address to the Constituent Assembly on eleventh August 1947 he
said:
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You may belong to any religion, caste or creed that has nothing
to do with the business of the state. We are starting with the
fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens
of one state. Now I think we should keep that in front of us as
our ideal and you will find that in course of time Hindus will
cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims not in
the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of every
individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the state".
While speaking at Chitagong on 26th March 1948 he had said: -
"You are only voicing my sentiments and
the sentiments of millions of Muslims when you say that Pakistan
should be based on sure foundation of justice land Islamic socialism
which emphasizes equality and brotherhood of man. These are the
basic points of our religion, culture and civilization and we
fought for Pakistan because there was a danger to these human
rights in the subcontinent. We aspired for these great ideals
because of centuries of dual domination by the foreign rulers
and by a caste-ridden system".
Furthermore in a broadcast to the people of Australia on 14th
February 1948 the Quaid said:
"We are members of the brotherhood of Islam
in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self respect. Consequently,
we have a special land a very deep sense of unity. But make no
mistake. Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it. Islam
demands from us the tolerance of other creeds and we welcome in
closest association with us all those who, of whatever creed,
are themselves willing and ready to play their part as true and
loyal citizens of Pakistan".
The forces of orthodoxy are trampling the vision of Quaid-e-Azam
on with no resistance from the claimants of the legacy of the
Quaid. It is the revival of this legacy alone that can save Pakistan
from the evil designs of the extremists and religious fanatics.
Our mission is to make Pakistan the best place in the world to
live, which INSHALLAH we will, if we get the opportunity.
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Rawalpindi
29 October, 2000
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Lt.Gen.Faiz Ali Chishti (Rtd)
Founder President
Tameer-e-Pakistan Party
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