BANNU: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that his party will not support any unconstitutional step of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, which has announced a ‘million march’ on Islamabad on August 14.

“The people have given us the mandate and we will not breach their trust,” he said while addressing his party workers at Fazal Qadir Shaheed Park here on Saturday. JI is the coalition partner of PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

Mr Haq said that PTI chairman Imran Khan should take decisions with great care. He said that people had given mandate to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in the general elections and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should fulfill his commitments which he had made with people of the country.

One of his major commitments, he said, was to end electricity loadshedding within three months, but unfortunately power crisis had aggravated across the country. He said that much bloodshed had taken place in the country and now Pakistan could not afford any new crisis.

The JI chief blamed successive governments for the current situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and said that people of Fata had not been brought to the mainstream. He said that the government and army had claimed that Miramshah and Mirali had been cleared, therefore, displaced people should be sent back to their homes immediately.

Published in Dawn, Aug 3rd, 2014