LAHORE: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami (JI), Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the people who had plundered public money were more dangerous than snakes and scorpions and did not deserve any leniency.
Addressing the Juma congregation at Mansoora mosque, he counseled the political parties to point out the corrupt elements within their ranks and hand them over to the law.
The JI chief said that the corrupt elements were national villains and their ill-gotten wealth lying abroad must be brought back and utilized for public welfare.
He said that those who had been bailed out under the NRO and those who had got their loans written off should be hauled up and every penny should be recovered from them. He said the black sheep in politics had defamed the politicians at large.
Sirajul Haq said that the corrupt elite were the root cause of all evils as they had been holding all state institutions as hostages. They had their wealth in foreign banks and also owned palaces in major cities abroad such as London and Dubai. They were doing business abroad and would come to Pakistan only to contest elections. They were not prepared to grant basic rights to the masses. These people changed parties at will and they did not allow the accountability of each other. Instead, they would join hands when there was a need in order to protect each other’s corruption.
The JI chief was confident that the wave of change that was witnessed in the mountains of Chitral in the shape of JI’s election victory would also have its effect in the Punjab and Sindh. And he people in these provinces would also support the JI. However, he said that there was dire need of electoral reforms
He said that protection of the country’s ideological boundaries was as essential as its geographical borders because nations lived because of their ideologies. A nation who did not have any ideology, could not survive long.
He said that India was our sworn enemy and the people who termed India as their most favourite state were also in the dock now. He said that peace in the region would remain a dream unless the Kashmir issue was solved. It was high time that the world community realized this fact and took necessary measures for the grant of the right of self determination to the Kashmiris, he added.
