Government to review its soft policy towards India:Senator Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has stressed upon the federal government to review its soft policy towards India in view of New Delhi’s strong reaction over US decision to sell F. 16 to this country.

Talking to media, he said that India had been outraged over the US sale of fighter jets to Pakistan and the US Envoy in New Delhi had been summoned to lodge formal protest over that. On the other hand, he said, the rulers in Islamabad were continuing a soft policy vis a vis India and wanted friendship with that country.

Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the Daeish ruling the country, exploiting the masses and denying them basic rights was the real threat to the nation. He was talking to the media in Town Ship area after going around the main market and meeting with the traders.

Sirajul Haq said that the rulers were creating harassment among the masses by talking of Daiesh but were not ready to protect the life and property of the general public although they had long security fleets for themselves. He said it was the biggest form of terrorism that medicines were costly while death was so cheap. It was a matter of shame that the rulers were asking schools to arrange security for the students instead of making such arrangement at government level, he said.

The JI chief said that rulers had been coming and going but the fate of the common man had remained unchanged. He said that the masses wanted a Pakistan where every citizen had basic facilities of health, education and jobs on merit. The country had around eight million jobless youth of which 60 per cent were living below poverty line, he said and asked if the rulers had framed any policy to provide jobs to the youth. He said that incompetent wards of the rulers were holding high official posts whereas highly qualified and talented youth from poor families were constrained to work as venders.

Sirajul Haq said that the entire government machinery right from the Prime Minister down to the Patwari promptly implemented the laws relating to their perks and privileges but turned a blind eye to the laws concerning the rights of the general public.

He said the masses wanted a corruption-free and prosperous Pakistan, and added that the JI would begin its campaign against corruption from the Punjab capital. He said that the drive against corruption was not aimed at achieving political goal as it was a national drive meant to protect the country. He said if the huge amount of plundered wealth lying in the foreign accounts of the rulers was recovered, the country would be freed from the clutches of the IMF and the World Bank.

Criticizing the prevailing system of accountability, the JI chief said that accountability should be above board. He said that only the people in power indulged in loot and plunder but the institutions meant for accountability would pick up only the small fry and let the big fish go. He said that as long as the big plunderers were not hauled up and put behind bars, the menace of corruption could not come to an end.

The JI chief slated the alarming increase in medicines including life saving drugs and deplored that the government as well as the opposition were not moved over the decision of the pharmaceutical companies.

He said the JI was launching a country wide campaign against corruption next month. He said that the institution set up to curb corruption was itself full of corruption, adding that the cases against the corrupt people were made so weak that the accused were released by the courts.

He urged the masses to support the JI campaign against corruption so that the country could be cleared of this evil.