Declaring that his government is ”deeply rooted” in the working class, President Irfaan Ali yesterday asserted that it had created more 50,000 new jobs since August 2020.
The creation of 50,000 jobs had been a manifesto promise of the PPP/C in 2020 but there has been no known compilation of the amount of jobs created, in which sectors or any independent review of these figures.
In the aftermath of a bruising battle with the teachers union which saw a four-week strike and charges that the government was unconstitutionally refusing to hold collective bargaining talks, Ali yesterday played up the benefits accorded to workers.