PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said Pakistan doesn’t need US financial assistance anymore as it is capable of fending for itself.

“The days of President Donald Trump’s agents have been numbered. Pakistani nation will not tolerate them,” he told the Student Talent Show 2018 here at Nishtar Hall on Wednesday.

The Islami Jamiat Talba, the JI’s student wing, had organised the event.

Mr Siraj came down heavily on the US administration for accusing Pakistan for harbouring terrorists in Afghanistan.

“We should tell President Trump in plain words that we are capable of standing on our own feet and do not need your dollars,” he said.

The JI chief said Donald Trump should understand that Pakistani nation had awakened and no one could buy its loyalty through financial assistance.

JI chief says corrupt leaders major threat to country

He held former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, responsible for the killing of innocent people in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and said Musharraf would be put in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail for his misdeeds.

Mr Siraj said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified for deceiving the people of India-held Kashmir, Palestine and Rohingya and not over Panama Papers case.

He regretted that the Supreme Court had kept silent about the Panama Papers after the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif.

The JI chief said the former premier and PML-N leader was criticising judges over his dismissal in a bid to shatter the people’s confidence in judiciary.

He declared corrupt leadership a major threat to Pakistan saying the corrupt leaders had always served own interests through making deals on national interests.

Mr Siraj said the corrupt elite class had shifted billion of funds to their foreign bank accounts and thus, increasing poverty level in the country.

He condemned the murder of a minor girl after rape in Kasur and said such inhuman incidents earned a bad name for the country.

The JI chief said the Punjab government had miserably failed to protect public life and property.

He demanded the immediate arrest of the Kasur incident’s culprits.

Mr Siraj urged the court to ensure speedy trial in cases to ensure the provision of quick and cheap justice to the people.

He said after coming to power, his party would eliminate ‘VIP culture’ from the country and spend the looted money on the welfare of the poor people.

Published in Dawn, January 11th, 2018