Only those can bring change who live and die for Pakistan:Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has said that a change in the country could not be brought about either by feudal lords, capitalists, extortionists, or by the parties establishing family rule.

Addressing a party gathering at Murree on Sunday, he said that a change could be brought about by those who had the will to live and die for this country.

Sirajul Haq said that Pakistan had been the greatest blessing of Almighty Allah for the Muslims of the sub continent but the self-centered rulers had turned into a house ridden with poverty, price spiral, ignorance and disease. A big chunk of the population was forced to live below poverty level. Children were dying of hunger in Thar but the rulers remained unmoved. He said that if the masses continued to follow the dictum of  lesser evil and the bigger evil, there could not be a change here. There was silence of graveyard in the country and it was time that the masses rose up to change ourselves and also the entire system.

The JI chief said the Quid e Azam had told the nation almost eighty years back that if the Muslims wanted to live with honour, the only  way open to them was to live and die for Pakistan, and lay down their lives for principles, failing which harm would come to the Muslims and Islam both.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI Ijtema from November 21 would mark the beginning of a movement for the completion of the Pakistan movement and added that the heirs of the Pakistan Movement martyrs would also attend the congregation.He said that the non- Muslims, Socialists and Communists would also be invited at the JI Ijtema later this month and they would be introduced to the Islamic teachings.