Governments responsible for the deaths in Karachi due to heat: Siraj ul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Siraj ul Haq has expressed deep grief and concern over the large scale deaths in Karachi due to heat and said this was the result of governments total incompetence and mismanagement.

Talking to the JI central office bearers at Mansoora on Thursday, he said it was unfortunate that the government was trying to satisfy the general public simply through superficial measures.

He said that had the government not wasted billions on the advertisements in the print and electronic media about its so called achievements and spent necessary funds on power generation, load shedding could have been controlled to a great extent. He said that thousands of poor people were dying due to scorching heat but the rulers were least concerned as their priorities were quite different.

He said the government should have given top priority to electricity generation projects and completed these on war footing to save the masses from the onslaught of load shedding.  However, he said the rulers were not serious in solving the energy crisis and it seemed unlikely that the government would be able to overcome the energy crisis during its term.

Sirajul Haq further has said that the political parties which had been taking the MQM as their partner in the government during the last three decades and providing it an opportunity to carry on its crimes were also in the dock today.

He said that thousands of innocent people were gunned down in Karachi during last thirty years simply because the federal and provincial governments had given over the port city and mini Pakistan to the target killers, extortionists and thugs as a strategy and policy of reconciliation. He said if the BBC report was false, the MQM could approach the court and prove its innocence.

The JI chief said that the BBC’s eye opening report was also a whipping for those rulers who had been propping up the MQM for decades only to prolong their rule, thus pushing the Karachi, the economic hub of the country to ruin.  He said these ruling parties were equally responsible for the MQM’s crimes and they could not escape divine wrath or public accountability in this regard.

Sirajul Haq said it was unfortunate that the national security institutions were fully in the know of the affairs but no serious steps were taken to check the bloodletting and the deadly game went on under India’s full patronage. He said that the action against the criminals should have been stepped up after Saulat Mirza’s revelations.

The JI chief said that the charges of the MQM receiving training and arms from India were not new as dozens of people hauled up by the Rangers had already confessed of having received terrorists training from Indian. He said this was high time that the government moved the International Court of Justice against India and apprised the body of New Delhi’s conspiracies to destabilize this country.