Makhdoom Ahmad Mahmood visits Mansoora

Lahore : Ameer,  Jamaat e Islami,  Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that transparent and completely impartial elections were the only way to wipe out corruption and to help solve the numerous problems facing the country.

He was talking to the newsmen after a call on by former Punjab Governor and head of the Southern Punjab of the PPP, Makhdoom Ahmad Mahmood, at Mansoora on Saturday. Earlier, the two leaders discussed the political situation obtaining in the country for about half an hour. JI Secretary General,  Liaqat Baloch, MPA Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar and JI Information Secretary Amirul Azeem, were also present on the occasion.

Siraj ul Haq said that the masses were losing confidence in the elections and the present rulers had totally disappointed them. He said that if the corrupt rulers managed to escape even after the JIT investigation, the masses would take the plunderers to account on roads and streets.

He said that the JI was trying to bring the political parties on one page regarding electoral reforms. He said that a party lobby was controlling the country’s politics and institutions. This lobby purchased the mandate by spending billions in elections. These people were the root cause of all the problems in the country, he added.

The JI chief said that the resources of the Punjab were being spent on a limited area due to which there was much disappointment and even hatred in the Southern Punjab. He said the problems of the Southern Punjab could be solved only by making it a separate province.

To a question about the next budget, Sirajul Haq said that the people considered the budget as a drone attack by the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar as it would be nothing budget except some more taxes.  He said that even after the annual budget, there would be many mini budgets that would add to the worries of the people and enhance price hike.

The JI chief said that he had already met PPP chief Asif Ali Zardari on the issue of electoral reforms and would soon meet the heads of other parties in this respect. .

Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmud, in his brief talk with the media, thanked the JI chief for supporting the Southern Punjab province.