LAHORE: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) is against terrorism in any form by anyone but terming patriotic groups and welfare institutions as terrorists and taking punitive action against them under the US and Indian pressure is against national interest.

JI emir Sirajul Haq stated this while addressing the opening session of two-day leadership workshop at Mansoora on Saturday.

He said a political party that had been in power for four decades was confronting

the judiciary and threatening the accountability institutions only to save an individual which was most shameful.

The district heads of the JI from all over the country along with their deputies and secretaries are attending the workshop which would discuss the forthcoming elections and the ‘corruption-free Pakistan drive’ of the party.

Haq said it was unfortunate instead of curbing corruption, the government was patronising the corrupt officers and the Punjab government had convened a cabinet meeting to protect the corrupt bureaucrats.

Published in Dawn, February 25th, 2018