The electoral alliances were not to silent JI on the rulers corruption : Sirajul Haq

Lahore : Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the government’s foreign and internal policies were a failure and despite Islamabad’s blind following of US dictation for several years, Washington today stood with New Delhi on the Kashmir issue.

Addressing the participants of the JI central workshop for party workers at Mansoora on Sunday, he said that the country was isolated and the US had refused visa to the country’s official delegation.

He said that all rulers including Pervez Musharraf had been protecting US interest as against the national interest and the present rulers were continuing Musharraf’s policy. Because of that, Pakistan’s  passport had been disgraced.

Sirajul Haq said that if the rulers gave up corruption and announced to deposit the plundered wealth in the public exchequer, most of the country’s problems could be solved.

He said that the mills and factories of the rulers were minting profits where as the national institutions such as PIA, Steel Mills, were in heavy losses. This was only because the intentions of the rulers were not good as they simply watched their personal interest as against the national interest.

Pakistan, he said, had abundant resources both of men and material, but these resources were not being  properly used and thousands of educated youth were running from one end to the other for jobs, but in vain..

Talking to the media, he said that the JI in its petition before the Supreme Court had questioned the Prime Minister about the sources of his wealth of his family. In reply, the ruling family presented a letter of the Qatari price. “The ruling family seems to have a factory for preparing such letters” he remarked but added that these letters could not save the Prime Minister.

Sirajul Haq said it was ridiculous that during visits abroad, the rulers appealed to foreigners to invest in this country but their own businesses were in foreign lands.

He said that accountability was now a national demand and the JI would not withdraw from it.  He said that the common man respected the laws of the land, paid the taxes and would not violate the traffic signal. However, the ruling elite neither paid taxes not respected the traffic signal. Billions of rupees were recovered from the water tanks of their homes, he added.

The JI chief He said that actually a battle was going on between the nation and corruption, and Inshallah, corruption would be defeated and the nation would be victorious.

In reply to a question, Sirajul Haq said the electoral alliances in the past did not mean that the JI would remain silent on the rulers’ corruption. “We had voted for the PML(N) Speaker and not corruption”, he remarked.