LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch says his party will convene a round-table conference, inviting the entire national leadership, for developing a common line of action to remove all drawbacks of the electoral system.

Addressing the participants in the JI central workshop at Mansoora on Tuesday, he demanded that the politicians changing parties in a bid to hide their corruption and escape accountability should be barred from contesting elections, at least for once.

The JI secretary general said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was hurling threats at state institutions to escape accountability.

However, he said, the prime minister should understand that time had changed and the masses would not tolerate any attack on the judiciary or any similar action.

He said the rulers, who had been devouring public wealth without any sense of guilt, were accusing the JIT of being unfair. He said corruption and abuse of the official authority had pushed the country to the brink of disaster. He said the rulers were now on their way out and nobody would save them from a terrible fate. Baloch said the US was encouraging India and Israel and the [US] conspiracies could plunge the region into a serious crisis. In such a situation, he said, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia could jointly find a way out from the ‘US terrorism’ and solutions to Ummah’s problems.

He said the constitution declared the Quran and the Sunnah as the supreme law of the land and nobody could dare change it.

Earlier, Baloch visited the Lahore General Hospital and inquired after those injured in the Ferozepur Road blast.

Talking to the media on the occasion, he said the entire nation was on the same page against terrorism.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2017