Islamabad is being governed by two parties in the night:Siraj ul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has said that in Islamabad, the PML (N) was the rulers during the daytime while at night, the city  was governed by the two parties staging the sit-in.

Talking to the media at Mansoora, he however said that all the three  parties would have to shed their egoism to safeguard the country’s solidarity and to strengthen the constitution and democracy.

The JI chief said that unfortunately, the governments in the country had always ignored issues until the crisis deepened. In the present situation, he said, the government had shown total indifference on the issues of electoral rigging and the killings of the PAT workers due to which the issue reach a blind alley.

He said that the political Jirga had successfully brought together the parties of the conflict to the negotiation table. The three parties had held talks for as many as 37 times. For the first time in the country’s history, he said, the political parties had joined hands to safeguard democracy and with their consent, a political Jirga was formed. The Jirga had broken the deadlock and given recommendations to the two sides. It would be in the interest of the both sides to accept these. He said the Jirga was in touch with the leaders of all the three parties and it would continue its efforts till the issue was solved. “We would like to come up to the expectations of the nation on this core”, he added. He said that as long as the recommendations of the Jirga were not accepted, politics and democracy would remain a hostage. “We would like the participants of the sit-in to return home successfully,” he said. He further said that if all the institutions worked within their limits, such situations would not crop up.

The JI chief said that the western powers wanted to create the situation of Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan in this country, he added.

Replying to a question, Sirajul Haq said that the JI’s stance on the Kalabagh dam was the same as of the nation. He said that flood preventive measures were adopted all over the world, so why could not we do the same in this country.

He said the federal government had not discharged its duties regarding the protection of the masses from floods sand the construction of dams with the result that the flood was playing havoc once again, he added. He said the JI and the Al-Ki Khidmat Foundation were doing their duty to provide every possible help and assistance to the flood hit people.

Earlier, while addressing the opening session of the JI central Shoora, Sirajul Haq said that the misdeeds of the human beings always resulted in problems and calamities. He said that every human being had the compulsions of hunger and fear and as long as these were not solved, the collective life would continue to suffer. He said that Almighty Allah had commissioned His Prophets in all times for reforming the faith and actions of the masses. He said that unfortunately, the Muslims today had confined themselves to faith only and had shut their eyes to the practical life.