Jamaat e Islami’s Train March starts at Peshawar

Lahore: Jamaat e Islami’s Corruption Free Pakistan Train March kicked off at Peshawar Wednesday morning with the JI chief Senator Sirajul Haq, declaring that the corridors of powers must be cleansed of the corrupt the proper place for whom was the Adiala jail.

Addressing big gatherings at major railway stations on route to the Punjab capital, he said that the entire nation had risen against corruption and would not rest until the cancer of loot and plunder was wiped out.  He said that all those whose names had appeared in the Panama leaks should voluntarily quit politics and their government posts.

Sirajul Haq warned that if an impartial and transparent enquiry into the Panama leaks was not held or the verdict of the judicial commission on this score was not implemented, a sea of the people would march to Islamabad and drive the rulers out of their lodges.

The Train March was given a rousing welcome at Nowshera, Attock, Hasan Abdal, Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Gujrat and Gujranwala. JI central leaders, provincial chiefs besides local level leadership and large number of youth received the Train march.

Sirajul Haq said it was only because of corruption of the rulers that the masses were deprived of basic facilities of life, their children were without education and health facilities and millions could not get even clean drinking water.

He said that the homes of the poor were without water while heaps of currency notes were being recovered from the places and hideouts of bureaucrats, he remarked.

He said the workers and the farmers were not getting due return of their hard labour and the farmers were putting their crops on fire.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI leaders in Bangladesh were sacrificing their lives in love for this country while the rulers in Islamabad were amassing wealth.

He said that the existence and sovereignty of the country was at stake because of the cowardly rulers who had slavish mentality. He said that the US had shattered the country’s sovereignty through drone attacks. “I would like to remind the rulers of the historic saying of Tipu Sultan, that a single day’s life of a lion was better than hundred years’ life of a jackal, he remarked.

Addressing a big crowd at the Lahore railway stations, he said that the nation was up against the corrupt rulers and they could not escape accountability. He said that the JI was part of the Opposition and wanted to remain so. The JI desired that the government and the opposition agreed on joint ToRs and a Judicial Commission was set up for Panama leaks probe. The judicial commission should have full powers to confiscate the illegal wealth and properties of the plunderers, he added.

Sirajul Haq termed the PML(N) government a continuation of the PPP and Musharaf rule and said that the policies of the previous regimes were still continuing.The JI Train March would resume tomorrow morning on board the Khyber Mail.

Senator Sirajul Haq said that the rulers were adopting delaying tactics to escape probe into the Panama Leaks. He said that the entire government system was disturbed due to absence of the Prime Minister from the country at this moment.