Federal Ministers seek JI support with reference to the Panama leaks

Lahore: Federal Ministers for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid and Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq, called on the Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, in Islamabad on Tuesday and discussed with him the political matters with special reference to the Panama leaks issue and the executions of JI leaders in Bangladesh.

JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch and JI deputy chief Mian Muhammad Aslam, were also present on the occasion.

Talking to news men after the meeting, the JI chief said that he had discussed with the ministers the Panama leaks issue and the inhuman treatment being meted out to the JI leaders in Bangladesh.

Sirajul Haq said the Panama leaks was a national as also an international issue. He said the JI had always been against corruption. He said that from the very beginning, the JI had been demanding that an impartial commission should hold enquiry into the matter so that the nation could know the facts.

He said that Khwaja Saad Rafiq had told that the government had finalised the Terms of Reference for the commission. He said that the JI would study the ToRs and offer its point of view on these.

Sirajul Haq said that the Railways Minister had talked of a transparent and impartial enquiry which should be welcomed.  He hoped that all political parties would come forward to eliminate corruption.

On the trials of JI leaders in Bangladesh, Sirajul Haq said this was an important issue. He said that the JI leaders Mutiur Rahman Nizami, Prof, Ghulam Azam and Abdul Qadir Mullah had offered huge sacrifices for the cause of Pakistan but they had been at the mercy of the so called war crimes tribunal .  He said that the issue should be taken up on official level as this was the duty of the Pakistan government.