KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq has termed his train march for a ‘Corruption-Free Pakistan’ a success, which concluded here on Friday night when a train carrying dozens of activists led by him and JI secretary general Liaquat Baloch arrived at the Cantt Station.
He vowed to continue the JI campaign against corruption even if he had to go to Panama.
The march started a couple of days ago from Peshawar and took more than 48 hours to reach Karachi with stopovers at around a dozen major stations of different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh.
The JI emir also spoke at the railway stations of Hyderabad, Rohri near Sukkur, Nawabshah and Khairpur where local JI leaders, party workers and supporters welcomed him.
The senator said he would hold a ‘jirga’ of youths on May 30 in Islamabad to announce the JI’s future strategy.
At Hyderabad Senator Haq said the warm welcomes accorded to the train march reflected the people’s aspirations for a Islamic revolution as they had tested everyone right from dictatorial regimes to the so-called democratic, jagirdars, capitalists and friends of the West.
Speaking at Sukkur, Mr Haq said the rulers instead of providing security to the people were strengthening their own vested interests.At Nawabshah, he said his party was struggling for the establishment of a government of the people, by the people and for the people on the basis of Islamic ideology.
At Khairpur, the senator said prosperity in the real sense could only be brought about if the agricultural land was distributed among poor peasants.
Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2016
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