Govt. did not execute death sentence awarded by civil courts to 8000 criminals : Siraj ul Haq

Lahore:Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has said that the government itself had not executed the death sentence announced by the civil courts to about eight thousand criminals but an impression was being given that the civil judiciary had failed.

Talking to the media at Mansoora where a meeting of the JI Central Shoora was continuing on Sunday, he further said that the government had not provided any evidence regarding the allegations being leveled against the seminaries so far nor had it named even a single madrissah involved in terrorism.

He said that after the Peshawar tragedy, the nation had risen as one man and stood by the government. A clear cut mandate was given to the Prime Minister for a war against terrorism, but the government had failed to take full advantage of this opportunity and there had been no impressive activity for uprooting terrorism. The government’s non- seriousness against terrorism and lawlessness should be manifest from the fact that there had not been a single meeting of the NECTA so far, he added.

The JI chief said that the basic rights of the citizens were snatched under the so called Protection of Ordinance but on the other hand, no practical steps were taken to uproot lawlessness and terrorism. The government had not taken any preventive measures to stop terrorist attacks, and it seemed the rulers were least interested in the security of the life, property and honour of the people.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI had decided to bring all the anti status quo forces in the country on one platform and wage a decisive war against the tiny ruling elite that had been controlling the country’s resources for the last 68 years and had been holding the politics, economy and all state institutions as hostages. He said that the common man was simply there to pay the utilities bills and scores of taxes while the corrupt rulers were enhancing their bank accounts.

He said the Shoora had decided to launch a mass contact campaign during the current year and open JI’s doors to all and sundry.  It had been decided to invite the masses to the JI and raise the number of JI members and workers to ten million. Conventions of the youth, farmers and labourers would be held at divisional level and one million youth would be inducted into the party under the drive. The minorities of the country- to be called the Pakistani community- would also be invited to join the JI and a special wing was being set up for the purpose, he said.

Sirajul Haq said that the Shoora had also decided to observe the Kashmir Solidarity Day on February five as usual, and rallies, public meetings and Kashmir Conferences would be held in the federal and provincial capitals besides major cities. He said that the Kashmir was the issue of life and death for Pakistan and the country remained incomplete without Kashmir. While more than seven lakh Indian troops had been carrying out the genocide of the Kashmiri men, women and children for several decades, the rulers in Islamabad were anxious for friendship with India through cricket diplomacy and import of onions and potatoes, he said.

He said that the nation could not afford another tragedy like the fall of Dhaka. Therefore, the JI would unite the nation for the solution of the Balochistan issue and a national level delegation would be meeting the estranged Baloch leaders next month and endeavour to bring them back to the national mainstream.

About the situation in Karachi and Sindh, he said the happenings in the port city and Sindh were before everybody. He said the MQM and the PPP had been close allies and whatever their leaders were disclosing about each other was true, and there should not be any doubt about that.

To another question, Sirajul Haq expressed the hope that the issues between the government and the PTI would be settled very soon, and added that if the government showed seriousness in this regard, the PTI would not have to stage a sit-in again.