ISLAMABAD: Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Sirajul Haq has said that corruption has gone deep into the society and it was the responsibility of the Supreme Court to steer it out from there.
Talking to the media after the Supreme Court proceedings here on Tuesday, he said that the Panama leaks had become a national issue, and political workers as well as non-political people wanted a corruption-free society.
However, he said that the government was not willing to resolve this issue and was adopting delaying tactics.
Sirajul Haq said the JI wanted the Court to decide the issue within December and a judicial commission be constituted for enquiry.
He said that all political parties wanted the same and that was why joint ToRs had been finalized but the government did not accept those.
He said the JI wanted enquiry and trial of all those who had been named in the Panama leaks including the people from the ruling party, the opposition, the judiciary and the bureaucrats.
However, he said, the enquiry against the Prime Minister and his family should be completed first as the Premier had offered himself for accountability.
The JI chief said that the learned Chief Justice had himself pointed out that a common citizen had questioned righteous Caliph Umar regarding a piece of cloth over his person.
He said that nobody could be above accountability in the present era and it was time to cleanse the society from corruption.
He said that politics could be purged of the corrupt elements only if the Prime Minister was brought for accountability, an remarked that if the politicians were involved in corruption, how could corruption be checked.
Sirajul Haq said the eyes of the entire nation were on the apex court. He said he did not want to see the day when the nation got disappointed from the judiciary because in that case, there was civic war.
He agreed that reforms were also required in the judicial system and said this was the job of the National Assembly.
However, he said, the ruling party had not presented any bill in this regard while four bills submitted by the JI on the issue had been put into cold storage by the Speaker who was with the ruling party.
To a question about military courts, he said that the military courts were a lack of confidence in the civil courts.
He said the military courts had been accepted only for a limited period and it was imperative to introduce judicial reforms and strengthen the institutions, .
Sirajul Haq said the JI was stressing for judicial commission because the NAB, FIA and other institutions had failed to take action against around six hundred people mentioned in the Panama leaks.
