Rulers wasting billions on festivals when people starve : Munawar Hasan

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that unscrupulous rulers were squandering billions on Youth Festivals at a time when dejected mothers were strangulating their kids because of poverty.

Talking to the JI Information Secretary M. Anwar Niazi by phone from Makkah on Wednesday, he said that the frequent raises in POL, gas and electricity prices had made the life of the common man miserable. The party coming into power on the ambitious programme of building Pakistan Asia’s economic tiger, had practically ruined the country’s economy.

Syed Munawar Hasan said that the government could not befool the masses through fictitious reports of economic revolution, especially because the World Bank had termed the economic situation of the country as alarming while according to the UN report, Pakistan was at the top in Asia on the poverty list. .

He said the general public was already disappointed but the rulers were hell bent on selling out important national institutions to their cronies and friends on throw away prices which would add to unemployment.

The JI chief called upon the rulers to account for the huge sums of money received from the privatization of as many as 167 state institutions in 2011, and asked where all that money had gone.  He said that in fact, the government was selling out these institutions on the IMF dictation to secure more loans.

The JI chief said that the rulers were least interested in curbing corruption and loot of the public money.