JI had not demanded another ministry in the KPK: Siraj ul Haq

Lahore: Jamaat e Islami deputy chief and Senior Minister in the KPK, government, Siraj ul Haq has strongly contradicted the reports appearing in a section of the press that the JI had demanded another ministry in the KPK.

Talking to the media at Mansoora on Saturday, he said that in the eyes of the JI, the ministries were not of any importance nor had the JI asked for more. The JI had joined hands with the PTI to serve the people and it was doing that, he added.

Sirajul Haq urged the federal government to consider the drone attack at Hangu as an attack at Islamabad because after the Hangu attack, drone could attack Islamabad as well.

He called upon the federal government to hand over the CIA chief sitting in the federal capital, to the Khyber P government in accordance with the FIR. He said if there was any agreement between the federal government and the US and NATO for allowing drone attacks and NATO supplies, it must be made public. He said if the federal government did not change its policy, and the drone attacks and NATO supplies continued, demonstrations and sit-ins would be staged in front of the Parliament house, the US Embassy as also the UN office, soon.

He said the human habitations in the Khyber P had been turned into grave yards as the military dictator Pervez Musharraf had made their province the fodder of the US  war, More than fifty thousand innocent men and women and children had lost their lives in this war and the financial losses of the country were above one hundred billion dollars. It was time that the government demanded compensation for these losses from the US and NATO, he added.

He said if the federal government abandoned its cowardly policy and took a bold decision for the country’s defense, the JI would fully support it.