Pakistan does not belong to a handful of princes sitting in Islamabad: Siraj ul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has vowed to continue the struggle for the rights of the kisans and workers till their plight was improved.

Pakistan does not belong to a handful of princes sitting in Islamabad, it also is the land of the farmers toiling day and night, he said while addressing a big public meeting at Bahawalpur on the second day of JI’s Kisan Raj movement. JI Punjab chief  Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar was also present.

Terming the rulers pushing the rural areas to poverty and deprivations as national villains, Sirajul Haq said it was time to bring all these people to accountability.

The JI chief counseled the government to provide the kisans and workers their rights at their doorstep, before the time they besieged the rulers’ bungalows in Islamabad. He said that the country had to pay total loan amounting to 70 billion dollars whereas the wealth owned by Pakistanis lying in foreign banks abroad ran into hundreds of billions. The JI would recover all this wealth from the plunderers and spend it on public welfare projects, he added.

The JI chief supported the demand for Bahawalpur province and said this was an old  demand of the South Punjab which could not be ignored. He said that the farmers who constituted a big majority of the country’s population, worked day and night to feed the rest of the people, but their plight remained unchanged. It was the rulers who were eating the fruit of their labour. He said that besides armed terrorism, the country was in the grip of economic and political terrorism.

He said that the women folk in backward areas especially Cholistan had to work hard but they could not provide food or education to their children. He said that the corrupt rulers could be brought to accountability only when the rule of the Kisans and workers was established. He called for announcing the support prices for different crops to satisfy the growers who had been hit hard due to the low prices of crops in the recent years.