LAHORE: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the country was being ruled by the agents of the East India Company these are the same people who grabbed prizes from rulers belonging to British Empire on cost of tipping off against Muslims and seized rulership of the country on basis of their wealth.
Addressing the central parliamentary advisory council and workshop held at Mansoora, he said that a movement similar to the historic Pakistan Movement was imperative to free the nation from the hold of these slaves of the world imperialism.
The JI chief expressed deep grief over the massacre in the Syrian city Halab and deplored the silence of the Muslim world and the United Nations in this regard. He said that the historic city of four million people had been turned into ruins and even women and d children were not allowed to leave. Hospitals and educational institutions were also targeted.
This is quite astonishing; that Islamic countries and United nations keeping silence over the issue, he added. He said Islamic world have to unite to solve the issues of Ummah.
However, a few people want to get rid of the government instead of corruption, he added. People will not let ruling family or any other leader to escape who are involved in corruption.
Due to, Jamaat-e-Islami’s anti-corruption movement, now it has become a topic of every sitting, he said adding that masses want to see the corrupt behind bars.
Corruption has damaged the roots of our country, without faithful and ethical leadership this isn’t going to stop, JI Ameer said.
Continuing, Sirajul Haq said that the rulers had no moral ground to remain in power after the surfacing of the allegations of corruption against them.
He said it was an irony that a motorcycle rider was detained for not having documents of his motor bike but the country’s rulers who did not documents of their properties worth trillions were still clinging to their offices.
He said that the rulers were carrying on their publicity campaign out of public exchequer under the cover of opening ceremonies of development projects and adds worth billions were being dished out every day.
However, he said, the general public was demanding accountability of the loot and plunder. He said the rulers should not be under the impressing that the Panama leaks issue would be thrown to the winds and they would be let free.
He further said political parties doesn’t have democracy and the process of accountability. If they investigate the candidate before giving the party ticket, so the corrupt, dacoits and thieves may not make it to assembly, he added.
Sirajul Haq further said that the present electoral system did not guarantee fair, free and transparent elections in 2018. Under the present electoral system, the electorate was unable to vote freely. The elections were a game of wealth under which the wealthy and elite had been commanding public opinion through coercion and rigging, he added.
He demanded that in order to overcome these weaknesses, the spending of every party and candidate in the elections should be fixed so that the common citizens could also contest the polls.
