GUJRAT: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq says his struggle will continue till the accountability of all the 436 people mentioned in the list attached with the petition he has filed in the Supreme Court, ousted premier Nawaz Sharif being one of them.

Speaking to the participants in a gathering at the GTS Chowk, Gujrat, on Monday leading the JI’s Ehtesab Caravan from Lahore to Islamabad, he termed the corruption a form of terrorism that had ruined the country more than the militancy.

He said the corrupt parliamentarians had harmed the country more than the militants hiding in caves. These corrupt elements had been exploiting the masses for so long and it was the time people should rise against them to root out the corrupt system and bring in the Islamic system in Pakistan, he added.

The JI leader said his struggle was not for any personal gains or power as he had been waging a sacred war against the corruption to empower the poor through provision of education, health, employment and respect to the nation.

He said the youth was being compelled to torch their degrees as their were no jobs for them.

Mr Haq said Nawaz Sharif had been ousted as a result of his petition and he had launched his ‘Caravan’ for the advancing his campaign against the corrupt elite of the country.

He criticised Nawaz Sharif for not paying a visit to the poor family of the 12-year-old boy from Lalamusa who was killed by protocol vehicles of the ousted prime minister’s cavalcade last month, saying it showed how the ruling family rated the poor.

On his way to Islamabad, the JI chief also addressed rallies at Lalamusa, Kharian and Sara-i-Alamgir towns of the district.

Earlier, a large number of JI workers led by Gujrat JI emir Dr Tariq Saleem received the participants of Ehtesab Caravan when it entered the district’s limits.

Published in Dawn, September 12th, 2017