Corrupt rulers have made country a laughing stock: Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq,  has said that the corrupt and incompetent rulers had pushed the country to the brink of ruin and disappointed the masses.

Addressing the concluding session of the JI central workshop for party workers at Mansoora on Sunday, he said that the country was facing lawlessness and disruption and its economy had been destroyed due to the wrong policies and bad governance of the rulers.

The nation, he said, had not offered huge sacrifices for merely a piece of land, but for the establishment of an Islamic welfare state here. However, the feudal lords, vaderas and capitalists ruling the country so far, had pushed the objectives of the establishment of Pakistan into the background. The country had become a laughing stock in the world because of the corruption, incompetence and wrong policies of the rulers. The masses were groaning under the price spiral and poverty while the country had come under foreign debt amounting to trillions. Big chunk of fresh loans was spent only to pay back the interest on past loans and little was left for development.

SirajulHaq said that Islam was not the hurdle in the country’s development. Instead, the bad intentions and the character of the rulers were the real hurdles. He said that the Islamic order was not enforced in the country even for the single day and the country remained under military rule for 37 years and under so-called democracy for three decades. Yet, the blame for backwardness and other ills was being laid on Islam. He said that as long as Washington remained the master for the rulers, Pakistan  could not develop.

The JI chief said, had the Islamic provisions of the constitution been implemented, the country would not be facing socio-economic problems like poverty, corruption, lawlessness and disruption.

Siraj ul Haq was sure that the masses would reject the corrupt politicians in the elections next time and vote for the JI for bringing about a real change and putting the country on the road to progress and stability.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s ambassador in Pakistan,   Janan Mosazai, called on the Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, at Mansoora on Sunday and extended him an invitation on behalf of Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, to visit their country. The JI chief accepted the invitation.

The meeting continued for about an hour at which JI deputy Secretary General Muhammad Asghar and JI foreign wing chief Abdul Ghafar Aziz were also present.

Sirajul Haq welcomed the Afghan envoy. He said that the Afghans were an independent and self-respecting nation which had never accepted foreign occupation. He said the world at large should keep this fact in mind and frame their Afghan policy in the light of the same.

The JI chief said that the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan were closely linked together through religious, social and historical ties, and the peace and stability in Afghanistan was tantamount to peace and stability in this country. As such, the people of the two countries would have to join hands for facing all internal and foreign threats. He said the JI would continue its full cooperation for the restoration of peace in the brother Muslim country and the unity and unanimity of the Afghan people.

The Afghan envoy extended an invitation to the JI chief for a visit to Kabul. The JI chief accepted the invitation. The envoy said that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Pakistan some time back and the visits of Pakistan’s high ups in the government to his country had opened a new chapter of brotherly relations between the two countries.

He said that his country wanted good relations with all countries of the world but her relations with Pakistan were of basic importance in her foreign and internal policies as the Afghans could never forget the cooperation of the Pakistani brethren in any case.