LAHORE: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami , Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the Election Commission had failed to hold transparent elections and it had stifled the actual voice of the masses.
He was addressing the provincial Shoora of the JI Balochistan in Quetta on Monday.
Sirajul Haq said that the Election Commission had not been able to satisfy the political parties and added that controlled democracy was not acceptable. He said although the Election Commission had been made autonomous but its powers were used by the unseen forces.
As a result, the masses were deprived of fair and transparent elections. He said that if the election system was not reformed, the people would lose confidence in the ballot box. The JI chief urged the powers that be not to make Balochistan the laboratory of their experiments.
Sirajul Haq reiterated that the solution of all the problems of the country and the masses lay in the Islamic system and the true Islamic revolution could be achieved through democratic process.
He stressed that the people of Balochistan should be given their due share in the CPEC which was a gigantic project for development.
Speaking on the occasion, JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch., said that the problems of Balochistan could be solved through fair elections, end of corruption and the utilization of the provinces resources in the province. Different reports on the problems facing the province were presented at the meeting.
JI Balochistan chief Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi, said on the occasion that the JI was an ideological party and the goal before its workers was not victory in the elections. Instead, they wanted the pleasure of Allah and treated politics also an act of worship. He said that struggle in this direction would continue uninterrupted.
