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Many development projects of the PTI government appear to benefit only the affluent
Development policy under Imran Khan is a saga of revolutionary promises and regressive outcomes. The problem is that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has not moved to direct the country’s development policy and practice to serve the ordinary.
The PTI has shown that it took over without even the minimum preparation needed to deliver what it promised. The lack of preparedness is visible in the fact of unelected experts continuing to chair taskforce meetings to go beyond the documents on Naya Pakistan Housing Programme (NPHP). The parliament has been kept away from taking control of policymaking. There was a possibility, however remote, of citizens’ participation in development policy, especially in the Punjab. It was killed by rolling back the local governments in the province in early 2019. The role of the unelected (bureaucrats, experts and contractors) in development policy has therefore grow