LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the past and the present rulers of the country were terrified over the nation’s demand for accountability as their hands were not clean.
He was addressing a party meeting held at Mansoora to review the JI’s Corruption Free Pakistan, movement. Sirajul Haq said that the JIs movement against corruption had united the nation. He said had the rulers had been sincere, the process of accountability should have been begun by now. However, the rulers feared that they would be the first target of Ehtisab.
He said that neither the judicial commission for accountability had been set up nor had the 1956 law on the subject been amended so far. He said that keeping silent over the loot and plunder would be the biggest form of hypocrisy.
The JI chief declared that the JI would fight against the promoters of corruption on all fronts in order to eliminate political and economic terrorism in the country and would chase them everywhere.
Sirajul Haq said that certain elements were trying to change the direction of Ehtisab but added that the masses would not allow that. He said the objective of the JI’s drive against corruption was to retrieve the plundered wealth from the mafias and channelize it towards the wellbeing of the masses.
He said if the corruption to the tune of Rs. twelve billion per day was controlled and the nation’s wealth lying in foreign countries was brought back, the masses could be provided free education and health facilities, homes to the homeless and the tariff of electricity and gas could also be cut down to provide relief the common man.
Meanwhile, a special messenger of the Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq has reached Turkey with a message of greetings for the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The messenger, JI’s Foreign affairs chief , Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, carries a message from the JI Ameer congratulating him on the failure of the military coup and the huge sacrifices offered by the Turkish people for the democratic system.
The message says that a wave of jubilation had spread among the people of Pakistan over the failure of the military coup in Turkey.
