Siraj ul Haq commends CJP on showing mirror to the government

Lahore : Ameer Jamaat e Islami Pakistan Senator Sirajul Haq has said that Chief Justice of Supreme Court had truly represented the masses of the country and shown the mirror to the government on the corona situation.

He was talking to the president of the PIMA( Pakistan Islamic Medical Association, Dr Muhammad Afzal, at Mansoora, on Tuesday.

The JI chief said that the people were grateful to the Chief Justice for giving a warning to the rulers on their poor performance on the corona front.

He urged the Senate Chairman to immediately convene a Senate session to discuss the prevailing conditions and chalk out a line of action for steering the country out of the crisis. He said the elected houses were the voice of the people and if these houses did not respond to the call of the people, they would become redundant.

The JI chief welcomed the CJP’s directive to the government for adopting a uniform corona policy in the country and said that the CJP had diagnosed the real malady. He said a tussle had been going on between the centre and the provinces especially Sindh. Both sides were boosting their ego and none was ready to yield and the people and the patients were suffering due to this tug of war.

Siraj ul Haq expressed deep grief over the martyrdom of Dr Furqan at a Karachi hospital. He urged the CJP to set up a judicial commission to probe into the death of Dr Furqan who died due to the  non –availability of a ventilator. He said that those responsible for the doctors death must be handed down deterrent punishment. He said if  the government could not provide adequate safety measures for the doctors, the treatment of corona and other patients would be impossible.

The JI chief appreciated the setting up an Al_khidmat Laboratory at the Surayya Azeem Hospital for corona tests at low costs and greeted the PIM chief for that.

Meanwhile, a delegation of small traders called on the JI Chief at Mansoora and apprised him of their problems.  Talking to the  delegation, the JI chief said that business in the country had been closed for the last two months and lakhs of workers associated with cottage  and small industry had been rendered jobless.  In such a situation, he said, it was government’s responsibility to enable the traders to start business and stand on their own feet and also assess their losses.

However, he said that till now, the government had done nothing in this respect, and had not expressed a word of sympathy with them either.