Siraj demands accountability of corrupt leaders

F.P. Report

SWABI: Sirajul Haq, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Chief said that they wanted accountability of all corrupt leaders before the general election 2018 and their party would continue fights against the corrupt practices and corrupt leaders with complete vigour and determination till the eradication of this menace which had devoured all the vitals of the society.

Addressing a public meeting in government high school playground he said that the country had faced the economic decline while getting barrow money and the graph of debt has been increasing and the reason was that our leadership has adopted the British system and ignored the Islamic system which is the only panacea of all our ills.

He said after the shameful amendment former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was reelected as president of the party by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders but the decision was against democratic norms and principles.

“This was against the aspiration of the people and against the apex court verdict in the Panama case. The PML-N leaders committed a blunder. How a corrupt leader could be reelected president of the party,” he said. The JI Chief said that when distinguished leaders of the ruling political parties concentrate on accumulation of wealth and give importance to their own interest on state vital interest how they could work for people welfare and how the country could achieve its objective of economic progress.

The corrupt practices need complete eradication and leaders who indulged in corruption should face the law of the land. Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister had been ousted but there was need of more action, he said. “The names of 436 other leaders were also included in the Panama leaks and they all should be brought to justice,” he demanded.

Now the corrupt politicians and their cronies wanted to devise plan to amend the Articles 62 and63 because despite the high claims of pious people they could not fulfill its conditions. The JI leadership struggling and wanted the implementation of the two articles of the constitution in letter and spirit, he remarked. He said that in the last 70 years different rulers had ruled the country but they utterly failed to deliver.

The JI chief alleged that Pakistan leadership had looked to American leadership nod in all affairs and Washington had used them as a tool to achieve their global agenda. “We wanted that this practice should be stopped,” he said. If the country leadership failed to change their tactics then the situation is moving towards a revolution.

Mushraq Ahmad Khan, JI provincial chief said that Afghanistan has been in turmoil for the last three decades, Syria is in a state of war for five years, slaughtering of Iraqi people have not been stopped, Yemen is burning and genocide of the Rohingya Muslims in Burma continued. Over five lakh Muslims from Burma had already reached Bangladesh, he said, adding that the Rohingya Muslims have set their camp in very difficult region and the reports said that there was a grave threat of health disaster, he said.

He expressed deep concern that so far none of the Muslim rulers have visited the Rohingya camps to offer his support to them. The JI leader urged the government of Pakistan to strongly protest the ongoing genocide of Rohingya Muslims on the international level, cut off diplomatic ties with Myanmar and expel its diplomats from Islamabad.

He deplored the complete silence of international media and international watchdog over the brutal killing of the Muslims. He said, had there been need of bold steps by the rulers with self-respect and sense of dignity, and if the Muslim world work with complete determination people of Kashmir, Burma and Palestine would not face brutally and killings.