LAHORE: The people being dictated by international imperialists could neither put the country on the path to progress, nor take decisions independently, says Jamaat-e-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq.

These people were unable to think independently and always protected their own interests instead of the nation’s, the JI emir said while addressing the concluding session of the party’s central workshop at Mansoora.

Mr Haq regretted that the elections had changed nothing in the country as only the families and faces of the rulers kept changing while the system remained the same.

Those sitting in the assemblies were looking after their own interests and were least interested in changing the exploitative and oppressive system, he deplored.

The JI emir said the international establishment had established its control over the educational, economic and political systems of the developing countries through institutions like the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the IMF and the World Bank.

He said the rulers had made the whole nation and the coming generations “slaves” of the IMF and the WB through the interest-based loans and the minds of the younger generation were being “enslaved through the educational curricula and syllabi recommended by the IMF.”

He said the JI was striving for the enforcement of the Islamic order to protect the masses’ rights. He said the betrayal of the Pakistan ideology ultimately caused the fall of Dhaka.

Haq said the people had tried both the PML-N and the PPP time and again but neither of these could bring any change for the masses.

He said the PTI’s performance was also before the nation as it was also following in the footsteps of the previous rulers.

He said the party which came to power through “rosy promises” was disappointing the masses, and was acting as a villain of the nation.

Haq said the JI was not a political party but a movement aiming at “revolution’. It was struggling for the just Islamic system in order to protect the rights and interests of the common man.

He said the JI wanted that power should be in the hands of “God-fearing and competent people who were the true servants of the masses” and had the will and the capability to deliver.

He said the country needed a revolutionary and ideological leadership which alone could free it from “the clutches of the US and the international imperialism.”

Published in Dawn, January 27th, 2019