UPPER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami central chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the ‘Titanic’ of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is sinking in its own tsunami as the party’s federal government is running on ‘artificial oxygen’.

He was addressing a two-day annual congregation of JI Upper Dir chapter in Jamia Masjid here.

The JI chief said that the presidential system was a ‘non-issue’ and it was being discussed to divert attention of the people from important issues.

Mr Haq said that huge taxes were being imposed on the country’s people. He said that it was a great injustice to burden the poor people with taxes instead of giving them some relief. He said that the PTI leaders were claiming before coming into power that they would give relief to people, but they had miserably failed to deliver.

“The PTI has lost the match,” said the JI chief. He said that it was difficult to understand whether it was the government of PTI or PPP because most of the faces in the government were also part of a former PPP government.

Published in Dawn, April 22nd, 2019