The facts and figures speak for themselves. Take, for instance, the government's prime achievement of reducing the budget deficit, from 7.6 percent of GDP in 2007-08 to 6.6 percent of GDP during 2011-12, while the target for the fiscal year 2012-13 is bringing it further down to the 4.7 percent mark.
Obviously, this could not have been possible without putting in place an effective monetary policy whose sole objective is improving the living standards of ordinary Pakistanis for which the government is usually taking measures such as Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Waseela-e-Rozgar and now Waseela-e-Taleem schemes. Even the Benazir Stock Option Scheme for the working class is taken for a big step towards the economic amelioration of the labour community with dignity. Obviously, having a share in the industrial units where these workers are putting in their labour, through this stock option scheme, means dignity of labour.
It is, in fact, the motto of PPP from its very first day of inception as its founder, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Shaheed, too had envisioned the uplift of common man, especially of the toiling classes with equality and dignity, from day one.
It were during the days of senior Bhutto and then during the days of his enlightened daughter, Benazir Bhutto Shaheed, that hundreds of thousands of people from the working category got jobs and relief in various forms. A large number were even facilitated in going abroad for earning foreign exchange for the country and for the betterment of their dependants. The PPP leadership focused its energies on this compelling issue confronting the lives of our majority people despite the fact that the government sector is never taken for a good employment sector in most parts of the world especially in the countries having system of mixed economy or free enterprise. According to verified figures, the sitting government facilitated employment of at least 660 thousand Pakistanis abroad.