Lion has started eating its voters and poor : Munawar Hasan

Syed Munawar Hasan,JI

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that the enforcement of English as medium of instruction from class one in the Punjab,  was a great injustice to the children having no parallel in the world.

Addressing the Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said that the provincial government was pushing the coming generations into the darkness of illiteracy only to obtain loans from the IMF and other financial institutions. In most countries of the world, education was imparted in mother or the national languages, and the Hamudur Rehman Commission during the Ayub regime had also recommended primary education in Urdu which was however not implemented, he said.

Syed Munawar Hasan said that the JI had no objection to the teaching of English as a subject but its adoption as medium of instruction had created problems for the students as well as the rural teachers. He said, if the Punjab government did not change its outlook, the JI would be forced to launch a mass movement on the issue.

Continuing, the JI Ameer said that if the new rulers were unable to reduce the burden of price hike on the masses, they should not increase it either. He said that instead of widening the tax net to meet the budget deficit, the government had raised the taxes on the people already paying the taxes. The ruling clique was not ready to cut down their expenditure, but had inflicted another blow to the poor people already burdened with price hike, he said.

Syed munawar Hasan said the government had enhanced the power tariff to meet the IMF and World Bank terms for securing loans. The first two weeks of the new government had proved to be the continuation of the oppression of the previous regime as one per cent increase in the GST had led up to 20 per cent increase in prices and added to the worries of the common man, he said.

He said, the rulers had forgotten their election promises within a week of coming into power and had already surrendered to the world financial institutions. He stressed upon the people to remind the rulers of their manifesto and force them to implement that.