JI chief warns of anti-corruption march to Islamabad

Published May 30, 2016
CHITRAL: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq addressing a public meeting on Sunday.—Online
CHITRAL: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq addressing a public meeting on Sunday.—Online

CHITRAL: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq has threatened that his party will stage a long march to Islamabad to protest against corruption and corrupt rulers and called for setting up of a special court for the accountability of politicians with an authority to award rigorous punishment to convicts.

Addressing a public gathering here on Sunday, he vowed to be firm and steadfast in the fight against corruption which had made lives of the poor miserable and deprived 20 million children of basic education.

If corruption, VIP culture and profligacy by rulers came to an end, he said, every Pakistani would acquire free education and healthcare facilities and homeless people houses of their own.

“It is a pity that Lowari Tunnel project was launched five decades ago but it is yet to be completed. All this is due to rampant corruption which enables the rulers to enjoy luxuries at the cost of the poor,” Mr Haq said.

The Jamaat had resolved to launch a revolt against the system infested with evils, he said.

He claimed that except the JI, leadership of all political parties had been found to be owners of off-shore companies and said that it served as an eye-opener for people to observe that honest and competent leadership was the characteristic of only his party.

Regarding the crisis over off-shore companies, he said that the government had already wasted much time and the situation was fast heading to the point of no return, adding that the rulers would soon find themselves in shackles.

The gathering was also addressed by local JI leaders Mushtaq Ahmed Khan and Maulana Jamshed Ahmed, District Nazim Maghfirat Shah, Tariqullah, a member of the National Assembly, and former MNA Abdul Akbar Chitrali.

Earlier, a procession was taken out from Drosh which converted into a public meeting at the Polo Ground. It was said to be one of the few mammoth political gatherings in the history of the venue.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2016

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