Rulers to pay for Tanvir Baig’s murder : Siraj ul Haq

Lahore : Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, who led the funeral prayer of the slain JI local leader Mirza Tanvir Baig advocate , told the media on the occasion that the rulers would have to answer for the blood of the innocent people.

Mirza Tanvir Baig was the JI candidate for Chairmanship in Yakki gate UC falling in the NA constituency of Hamza Shahbaz, in the local bodies election last year. He was gunned down by two motorcyclists yesterday after he had appeared in the murder case of two PTI workers who were shot dead in his office by some hooligans a few days before the local bodies polls.

Besides large number of JI workers including JI Punjab chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed, the funeral was also attended by PTI leaders Ch. Muhammad Sarwar and Mian Mehmud ur Rashid.

Sirajul Haq said that Mirza Tanvir Baig had been assassinated under the nose of the Punjab Chief Minister. He said that if the family of the deceased did not get justice in time, it would be presumed that the Punjab rulers had a hand in the murder.

The JI chief questioned who had issued a license to the Punjab government for the mass murder of innocent people. He said if the rulers did not provide justice to the aggrieved family, “ we have other ways to get justice”.

“They talk of development and good governance in the Punjab but we only find humanity being humiliated in the province instead,” he remarked.

Sirajul Haq said the rulers were eliminating their political opponents in target killings and even the FIR was not being registered. The people had to march to Islamabad and stage a sit in for the registration of an FIR, he added.

“There seems to be jungle law in the Punjab capital where an advocate has been shot dead in broad day light but there is none to check the assassins. This only proves that the only thing cheap in the country is death” he said. . He said that the rulers who were unable to protect the lives of the citizens had no right to rule.

After leading the funeral prayer, the JI chief consoled the young sons of the deceased and expressed full sympathies with the bereaved family. He also directed the JI Lahore chief Zikrullah Mujahid to extend every possible help and assistance to the bereaved family.