DIR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Ameer Sirajul Haq while inaugurating the tree plantation drive in his home constituency Samar Bagh, Dir on Monday said that a clean and green Pakistan was the goal before the JI.
The JI chief opened the drive by planting a sapling. A large number of local people besides government officials were present on the occasion. He said that as many as 9.3 million saplings would be planted in Dir during the campaign.
Sirajul Haq said that the forests were a green gold for the people of the area from economic as well as scenic view points. He however said that the forests in the country were being destroyed because of official neglect. He urged the people to participate in the campaign by planting maximum number of trees and saplings.
The JI chief said that the problems of the quake affected people had not been solved so far and they had to visit the government offices every day while the formulae for financial help had not been decided as yet. He stressed upon the federal and the provincial governments to prepare a comprehensive plan for the help of the affected families. He said that if the relief was not distributed promptly, the foreign help to the tune of 910 million dollars would be withdrawn.
He said the JI was striving for a government which fully protected the constitutional rights of the people. He said for the last 68 years, a tiny elite class had been ruling the country and the masses were being denied their basic rights concerning education, health, employment, etc.
The JI chief said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had given him his promise to eliminate interest banking, ending obscenity and nudity in the media and for the enforcement of Islamic laws spelt out in the constitution. However, he said, that the Prime Minister had not honoured his word.
Sirajul Haq said that obscenity on the media had crossed all limits and the vulgarity and nudity scene in our media was not seen even in the media in the west, China and other secular states because they too had their laws on this score. He said that such media policy would only earn divine wrath.
