BATTAGRAM: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the existing system in the country is producing corrupt politicians and it has failed to deliver to the people. He said that people were anxiously waiting for justice in the Panama Papers case.

He said this here on Saturday at a public meeting, which was attended by people from Abbottabad, Mansehra, Torghar, Shangla and Kohistan. Party’s provincial chief Mushtaq Ahmed, Battagram district chief Haji Imdadullah and district chiefs of Abbottabad, Mansehra and Kohistan were also present on the occasion.

Mr Haq told the meeting that he was from a poor family and knew problems of the poor well. He said that during his student life he had spent his first night in Islamabad on a footpath because he could not afford hotel expenses.

He said that he had now realised that the politicians were here for exploitation of poor people. He said that political parties in Pakistan were in fact properties of their leaders and certain families were running them.

The JI chief claimed that the Panama Papers case had exposed corrupt politicians and their illegal assets. He said that Nawaz Sharif had lost the moral ground to remain the country’s prime minister after the Panama case verdict.

He said that Pakistan could not become a prosperous country in the presence of corrupt politicians and rulers. He said that all the traditional landlords, industrialists and leaders of political parties wanted to keep the people backward.

Mr Ahmed said that his party served the people and had practically proved it during earthquakes and floods.

Published in Dawn, April 30th, 2017