Supreme Court to decide Panama case to end unrest : Siraj ul Haq

Lahore : Ameer,  Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq,  has ruled out martial law in the country, and said that those warning the people of martial law were making a futile effort to escape  accountability.

Talking to the media at Mansoora on Friday on the opening day of the JI Shoora meeting, , he said that this was the age of  democracy and the masses would neither support the undemocratic forces nor tolerate them.

Siraj ul Haq said that the Prime Minister and his family members were repeatedly talking of conspiracies but were not disclosing who was hatching conspiracies.

He said that the Prime Minister had come down to threats. However, he said that threats were made only after one had lost all arguments. He said that nobody could be cowed down by threats.

“If Nawaz Sharif has not done any wrong, why should he be afraid  of”, he added.  He wondered  how many secrets the Premier was withholding from the nation.

Siraj ul Haq said that the Panama scandal had started with the Prime Minister and it would not end until the scandals of around 450 other characters of the story were also exposed.

He said that the corrupt elements were changing parties in order to hide their corruption. However, he said, the political parties should not accept such elements into their fold.

Siraj ul Haq said he wanted the Supreme Court to decide the case as early as possible so that the unrest among the masses was over and Pakistan could emerge as a corruption free state in the comity of the nations. He said even if some five to six thousand persons had to be sent to jail to secure  the future of our coming generations, it  would not be a bad bargain.

Earlier, while addressing the JI Shoora, Sirajul Haq said that the satanic forces all over the world were trying their utmost to obstruct the emergence of Islam as a political force. In Bangladesh, he said, 90 year old Prof. Ghulam Azam had been driven to death in jail and medical help was denied to him till the last . Many of his colleagues had been executed. A reputed aged scholar like Yousuf Al-Qarzavi was  declared a terrorists. In Egypt, the military dictator Sisi had put thousands of innocent people behind  the bars and their womenfolk there were given worst form of punishment. However, neither the human rights bodes nor the world community had uttered a word against all this while the Muslim rulers had  also kept their silence.

To a question on FATA, Sirajul Haq said that the British legacy FCR gave the Political Agent more powers than a king and a whole family or tribe was punished for the crime of an individual. However, he said, it was time that this black law was repealed for good and the tribal people were given their rights as citizens of Pakistan.