Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to stop functioning till the decision of the case : Siraj Ul Haq

Lahore : Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has urged the government to request the outgoing US President Obama to order the  release of Pakistan’s respectable lady Dr A’fia Siddiqui along with around 1300 other prisoners under special clemency.

He was talking to the media outside the Supreme Court after the hearing of the Panama Leaks case on Wednesday.

Sirajul Haq said that US President Obama who was to relinquish his office on January 20, had already ordered the release of nearly 1300 prisoners under his special powers. He said he was sure that  if the Foreign Office appealed to Obama for the clemency to Dr Aafia Siddiqui, there would be a positive response.  He said he would personally talk to the Foreign Ministry and also raise the issue in the Senate.

He said that Dr Aafia Siddiqui was a respectable Pakistani lady who had been in US jail for no cause, and it was obligatory for the government to make every effort for her release.

The JI chief repeated his demand that the Supreme Court larger bench hearing the case should direct Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to stop functioning till the decision of the case. He said he was not  demanding Prime Minister’s resignation as that would be before time. However, he said that since four members of the Prime Minister’s family had been named in the Panama leaks, he should be asked to stop functioning to ensure free and impartial probe into the matter by the NAB, the FIA and other state institutions and agencies.

Sirajul Haq said that the rulers were the root cause of corruption and all other evils in the society and loot and plunder of the public money could not be stopped sans the accountability of the rulers.

He said that the Panama papers were genuine and the Prime Minister had admitted that the names of his sons were in these papers and had also offered himself for accountability.

He said that bench hearing the Panama leaks case comprised of able and competent judges and the JI expected a good judgment from them.

Meanwhile ; Glowing tributes were paid to former Ameer of the Jamaat e Islami, late Qazi Hussain Ahmed, for his services for Islam and the unity of the Muslim Ummah as also his Jehad against exploitation and injustice in the society, at a seminar held in Islamabad on Wednesday.

Eminent speakers at the seminar said that the people like Qazi Husain Ahmed never died, but remained alive in the memory of their nation. Late Qazi Husain Ahmed had strived for the oppressed people of Kashmir, Palestine, Burma, Bosnia, and other parts of the world till his last breath, they said.

Ameer, JIP, Senator Sirajul Haq presided over the seminar which was also addressed by JI deputy chief Prof. khurshid Ahmed, Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq, Allama  Arif Wahidi, Allama Saqib Akbar, Wing Commander rtd Latif Qureshi, and Asif Luqman Qazi.

Sirajul Haq said that Qazi Hussain Ahmed had struggled for Islamic system throughout his life.  . He said that the oppressive system prevailing in the country for the last seven y years had failed to resolve the problem  of the masses and the Islamic system was the only solution of all the ills in the country.

He said that Qazi Hussain Ahmed wanted to pull the country out of regional, racial and ethnic biases and to build Pakistan a truly Islamic welfare state where every man enjoyed basic facilities of life.

Khwaja Saad Rafiq said that Qazi Hussain Ahmed had rendered huge sacrifices for Muslim unity, and democracy in the country, and the country at present badly needed hones t and dedicated leader like Qazi Hussain Ahmed