Jirga has given a week to parties: Siraj

Published September 20, 2014
Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Siraj ul Haq.— AFP file photo
Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Siraj ul Haq.— AFP file photo

BAHAWALPUR: Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has said the six-member jirga has given Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, PTI chief Imran Khan and PAT chief Tahirul Qadri a week's time to respond to its proposals to end the impasse.

Speaking to a public meeting at Hockey Stadium here on Friday, the JI chief reiterated that on the PAT demand of resignation of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in Model Town incident, it was proposed that any court of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Gilgit-Baltistan could try Shahbaz Sharif and his government.

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Regarding the PTI's main demand of election rigging, Sirajul Haq said the prime minister and his full cabinet should resign if the judicial commission proved rigging. He said the jirga members held about 40 meetings with Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri to find out solution to the crisis.

He said the JI was the only political party in the country which held its election of central emir after every five years. He said the party was struggling to enforce Shariah in the country.

He paid a tribute to the late Nawab of Bahawalpur who had annexed his former state with Pakistan and contributed financially to help create the country. He announced that the JI would organise a big rally at Minar-i-Pakistan on Nov 22.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2014

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