JI Shoora announces support the constitution,democracy :Siraj ul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has said the JI Shoora at its meeting here on Wednesday resolved to support the constitution and the democratic system and not be a party to any movement that could threaten the constitution.

Talking to the media at Mansoora, he said that the entire nation was worried about the sit-ins. He said the government, the PTI and the PAT had got used to the sit-in but the masses were praying for an early the end to the political crisis.

Sirajul Haq further said the JI would hold a three day Ijtema ( congregation) at the Minare Pakistan grounds here in November next with a renewed spirit of the Pakistan movement and for the completion of the true Pakistan in line with the dreams of the Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal.  He said the country was being ruled by feudal lords, vaderas and capitalists and not by the people.

He said that none of the three parties had sent its response to the opposition Jirga’s recommendations. He said, he could not say what had been the government reaction to the PTI/PAT demands. “ Our job was to break the dead lock and resume the talks”, he said, and added that “ we will soon call a meeting of the political Jirga and meet the two sides to work out a respectable way out of the crisis in two phases. In the first phase, a meeting of the major political parties would be held and a solution of the impasse would be worked out through consensus. In the second phase, the proposal solution would be placed before the both sides. He said that the political Jirga had the backing of the masses. He said he was not disappointed and was hopeful that a solution would be found out amicably.  He said it was not wise to drag in the armed forces and the judiciary into political issues. He said the parties staging sit-in talked about transparent elections and the supremacy of the constitution, and “we would like these people  to return home happily”.

To the MQM proposal for carving out twenty more provinces in the country, Sirajul Haq remarked that so far, the rulers were unable to run four provinces smoothly. If the rulers are able to govern the four existing provinces efficiently, the masses could agree on the creation for more provinces.

Sirajul Haq said the Shoora had expressed deep concern over the government failure to provide timely relief to the flood affected millions. He said that flood preventive measures had not been adopted at the government level due to which the people had to suffer huge losses. “The rulers observe karbla every evening but this cant compensate for the heavy losses of life and property of the masses, he added.

The JI chief said the need of the hour was that all the political parties agreed on a road map for flood protection and their total control and the next government should implement the road map. To another question, he said, that another one hundred dams could be built in the country however, there should be national consensus over these. He said that like the previous government, the present rulers had not allocated any funds for major dams.

The JI chief said that a coterie of self seeking politicians had kept the country away from its ideology and goal, and added that the JI would, Inshallah, eject this coterie from the corridors of power.

Meanwhile, Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan,  Sirajul Haq, has deplored that the issue of the missing persons had grown serious and the government had miserably failed to protect the life of the people.

He was talking to a delegation comprising the family members of a Faisalabad businessman Musawar Iqbal, JI Faisalabad chief Engi. Azeem Ahmed Randhawa and some other JI leaders, that called on him at Mansoora. Musawar Iqbal had been lifted reportedly by government agencies about two years back and his whereabouts were not known.

The JI chief said that unknown hands lifted the citizens and no body was prepared to heed to the court orders regarding the missing persons. He assured the delegation that the JI would continue to raise its voice against the tyranny and injustice of this nature and every possible cooperation would be extended to the families of the missing persons.