Jamaat e Islami (JI) Secretary General Liaquat Baloch said that the new federal budget was the death warrant for the poor and the masses had rejected it.
Terming the third budget of the PML(N) government as highly disappointing, he said that the budget had opened the flood gates of taxes which would crush the already overburdened masses. He was addressing the JI monthly workshop at Mansoora Lahore here on Saturday.
The JI central leader said that agriculture, industry, the salaried people and the poor masses had never been the priority of the PML (N) which was simply protecting the interests of the elite. He however said that if the government did not amend the budget for improving the lot of the poor, the public reaction would be enormous.
Continuing the JI Secretary General said that secular elements working under the shelter of the government wanted to demolish the ideological foundations of the country while there was cultural invasion from the west and India through the media. Efforts were being made to give a wrong direction to the ideology presented by the founding fathers Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Certain elements were also out to rescind the Objectives Resolution, the foundation of the country’s Islamic constitution. The constitution declared Islam as the religion of the state and the Holy Quran and the Sunnah as the Supreme law of the country. The constitution also made it obligatory for the rulers to bring the country’s economy and social system in harmony with the Quran and the Sunnah, he added.
He said that the country could be pulled out of the present crisis only by accepting the supremacy of the constitution and acting according to its spirit.
Liaqat Baloch said that the west was afraid of the growing popularity of Islam and was trying to weaken the Muslims by dividing them into Shias and Sunnis. He said the Milli Yakjehti Council had rendered great services in bridging the sectarian divide and forging national unity.
Later, the JI Secretary General, joined the Gulberg traders expressing solidarity with the Ruhangiya Muslims who were facing genocide while the world at large looked as silent spectator. Liaqat Baloch urged UN Secretary General, the OIC and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to rise to the occasion and play a meaningful role to protect these oppressed Muslims.
