Canadian First Secretary Dean Harriot calls on Senator Siraj ul Haq

Lahore: Canadian First Secretary ( Political and Public Affairs), in Islamabad, Dean Harriet, called on the Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, on Tuesday.
Talking to the Canadian diplomat, Sirajul Haq said that the JI’s politics was strictly ideological.
He said the JI firmly believed in the supremacy of the constitution and the law, and was against martial law, violence and all undemocratic means.
Stating that corruption was at its peak in Pakistan, the JI chief said that only an honest leadership could wipe out the evil.
Sirajul Haq termed electoral corruption as the root cause of all problems in the country. He said that the electoral process in the country was more commercial than democratic and whoever did not have billions could not do politics. He said the remedy lay in holding regular elections within political parties under the supervision of party’s own election commission.
The JI chief said that if true democracy was not introduced in the country, the youth would take to violence. He said that economic disparity in the society was causing frustration among the youth, especially the students. He also called for restoring Students Unions to build leadership qualities among the youth.
Sirajul Haq said that the Kashmir issue was the real issue of the region and incomplete agenda of the division of the sub continent. He said this was an issue between two nuclear powers. As such, the world should not shut its eyes to it.
He said that the JI was the custodian of the women rights and would provide them respectable social status and make the economically strong.
The JI chief said the government had created polarization in the society by separating religious and modern education, and added that the JI would end this division.