Siraj opposes two Senate seats from federal capital

F.P. Report

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan chief, Senator Sirajul Haq has opposed the election of two Senate seats from the federal capital and said that this was against the spirit of the Senate elections on the basis of parity between the provinces. Addressing a gathering of experts from different walks of life at Mansoora on Sunday, Sirajul Haq said that the parity formula helped to raise the federation on a strong footing. However the present quota of two senate seats from Islamabad adversely affected the constitution of the Senate.

He therefore, demanded that the present procedure of electing two senators from Islamabad should be changed and the elected assembly members from all the provinces should be given equal weight so that the sense of discrimination in the provinces on this score could be eliminated.

Meanwhile, while addressing the concluding session of the JI central workshop at Mansoora, the Ameer JI said that it was tragic that the secular and liberal elements holding power  in the country were tolerating the molestation of minor children like Zaiban and Asma but were not ready to accept the enforcement of the Shariah. He said that if the punishments under the Shariah ( Hudood), were enforced, the crimes like murders, dacoities, thefts, and molestation of innocent girls could be stopped. Sirajul Haq said that the Shariah did not only mean punishments. It also laid down an elaborate system for the look after of the orphans, widows and the elimination of oppressive economic system founded on interest. The Shariah also provided for a uniform education system instead of the present class based education system besides provision of basic health facilities and employment to the citizens, and the dispensation of inexpensive and quick justice to the masses.

He said that Pakistan was achieved in the name of Islam but during the last seventy years, the Islamic system was not allowed to function in the country for a single day.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI would make the farm workers and industrial workers shareholders in the profits of the agricultural and industrial incomes to end their exploitation by the feudal lords and industrialists.