NOWSHERA: Jamaat-i-Islami central chief and vice-president of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Sirajul Haq has said the MMA would start even-handed accountability across the country after coming to power.

Talking to media persons here on Wednesday, he said no political party had really worked for development and progress of country. He claimed that in the previous MMA tenure they had struggled for implementation of Sharia in the country but the federal government did not support their cause.

Mr Haq said MMA would resolve the electricity loadshedding and unemployment problems. He said during the PTI-led government, the JI had no powers.

He said as Kalabagh Dam issue had become controversial other water reservoirs should be built on a war-footing to meet water and energy needs of the country.

Meanwhile, three persons, including two police officials, were arrested on Wednesday in harassment case of a woman in Nowshera Cantonment. “The police officials involved in the crime would be penalised as per the law,” DIG Mardan Akhtar Hayat Gandapur told mediapersons.

A woman, who is resident of Karachi, had reported to Nowshera Cantt police that she was brought to a building in the cantonment by a man on pretext of providing her a job. She alleged that she was forcibly stayed there for night where two police officials and another man molested her.

Sources said police took immediate action and arrested constables Shahswar and Yasir Nadeem along with Zahoor, a resident of Khat Kaly, who was selling fruit in Nowshera Cantt, in the case.

Published in Dawn, June 28th, 2018