The staff and students of the Mastung Cadet College visit Mansoora

Lahore: Secretary General, Jamaat e Islami, Liaqat Baloch, has said that the remote control of Balochistan province from Islamabad had given birth to feelings of hatred and a sense of deprivation among the people of the province.

Addressing a delegation of the staff and students of the Mastung Cadet College, at Mansoora, on Sunday, he said that Balochistan was rich with minerals but the people of the province were deprived of the basic necessities like pure drinking water, education, health and jobs. He said the problems of Balochistan could be solved only by giving the people of the province their basis rights.  The delegation was led by Prof. Abdul Wahid Kakar and Abdul Qayyum.

Liaqat Baloch said that the regional, racial and ethnic biases were detrimental to national unity and those raising slogans of nationalism could not unite the nation.  He said that as long the country’s politics, economy and social norms were made subservient to the Islamic teachings, the country and the nation would not be able to overcome crises.

He said the need of the hour was to run the country in the spirit of the constitution. However, he said, the feudal lords, vaderas and capitalists in power were trampling upon the spirit of the constitution and they never accepted the supremacy of the law and the constitution. The general public was facing the consequences of the follies of the ruling elite, he added.

The rulers, he said, had chained the nation with the heavy loans of the MF and the World Bank while the rulers freely proceeded on foreign tours with their families as and when they desired.