Taliban unity is essential for the regional peace: Senator Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, has expressed the hope that the Afghan Taliban would not allow dissent in their ranks after the death of Mullah Omar and added that the Taliban unity was essential for the regional peace.

Addressing a big Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said that the Afghan Taliban had always been friendly towards Pakistan. India, he said, had been making frantic efforts to pit  Afghanistan against this country so as to distance the two Muslim states but all her efforts had failed.

He said that Afghanistan and Pakistan were brother Muslim states and their future was linked together. He said the JI supported the talks between Afghan government and the Taliban and stressed that the talks should be resumed at the earliest.

Sirajul Haq was of the view that after the Judicial Commission’s report, the rulers should attend to the people’s problems. He said that elections in future would be a futile exercise without electoral reforms.

The JI chief expressed deep grief over the heavy losses of life and property due to rains and floods and said that the government had not taken no measures to save the people from floods.

He said the rulers had been busy in building palaces and metros but had not built any dams, hospitals or educational institutions. The wealth of the rulers was lying abroad and public money was being transferred to foreign banks through plunder and corruption.  He said the rulers were doing business in Saudi Arabia, London and Malaysia but they were inviting foreign capitalists to invest in this country.

He said the country was in the grip of twenty two families and about five hundred people of these families were controlling the country’s politics and economy while the common man was deprived of basic necessities of life. Our future generations were under heavy debt of the IMF and the World Bank only because of the rulers’ corruption, he added.

Sirajul Haq said that during his visit to Saudi Arabia, he had met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and requested him to order abolition of interest, ban obscenity from the media and for improving ties with Afghanistan.  He said that unfortunately, the whole economic system was in the grip of interest and nobody was ready to give it up.

He warned that if timely action was not taken to curb obscenity and nudity from the media, the minds of our youth would be perverted and the nation would be ultimately weakened. He said there was no international pact that bound us to plunge our youth into the abyss of nudity and obscenity.

Commenting on the execution of Yaqub Memon in India, the JI chief said that the Muslims were being executed only for political grounds and from the cases of Maqbool Butt to Yaqub Memon, legal formalities had not been completed.

He hoped that the JI would emerge as a big public force in the local bodies elections in the Punjab and Sindh and it would continue its struggle for the enforcement of the Islamic system.