LAKKI MARWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the sole agenda of Pakistan Democratic Movement, the alliance of opposition parties, is to protect corruption.

Addressing a public meeting in Naurang here on Sunday, he said that the two main parties of opposition ruled the country several times but they failed to serve people.

“Now they have launched the movement to restore the loot and plunder system in the country,” he alleged.

JI deputy chief Mohammad Ibrahim, provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, provincial deputy chief Tasleem Iqbal and district emir Haji Azizullah Khan also addressed the public meeting.

Sirajul Haq said that his party refused to become part of the opposition alliance because it would not serve the nation. Without naming PML-N leader Maryum Nawaz, he said what would people say when they would see Bilawal Bhutto sitting on one side and the woman leader on the other side with him.

JI chief says country has been handed over to incompetent rulers

He said that both the two main political parties of opposition wanted to deceive people once against and come into power by using the shoulders of other parties.

He blasted Prime Minister Imran Khan for flawed polices and said that the country had not seen such an incompetent ruler in the past. “After ruling the country for around 900 days, he admitted his incompetency and incapability by saying that he was not prepared to run the government,” he added.

The JI leader said that admission by Imran Khan proved that the country was handed over to incompetent people, who destroyed all institutions and damaged the reputation of army as well.

Mr Siraj accused the government of selling out Kashmir to India, saying that its wrong policies added to the miseries of people. He said that inflation, surge in power and gas tariffs and increase in prices of essential commodities were the result of flawed economic policy of the government.

“A delegation of International Monetary Fund is in Islamabad to ask the government to further enhance electricity rates,” said the JI chief. He claimed that his party had the capability to steer the country out of crises. He added that JI would take its protest movement to its logical end.

Published in Dawn, December 28th, 2020