LOWER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said people are being forced to sell their children due to poverty.

Addressing an Eid Milan party in Jandol area here on Friday night, he said the current system had failed to provide relief to the poor.

Mr Haq insisted the only solution to the problems was the implementation of the Islamic justice system in the country.

He said despite the passage of three years, the parliament had failed to legislate for wellbeing of common people.

The JI chief declared that the legislation under the FATF regime was tantamount to jeopardising the national security.

He claimed that the law on domestic violence would destroy the social values in the country.

He said the present government had made lives of the poor miserable.

He said the slogan of change had proved to be a farce.

Mr Haq asked the people to vote for the JI as they had already tested PTI, PPP and PML-N which, he said had disappointed them.

He declared that drug, sugar, petrol and flour mafias had surrounded the present rulers.

The function was also addressed by JI district emir Izazul Mulk Afkari and other local leaders.

In a separate development, NGO Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), which is working for welfare of persons with disability in Lower Dir, distributed meat among 455 families, including orphans, widows and disabled persons in Timergara tehsil, on the second and third days of Eid.

Speaking on the occasion, Mohammad Bilal, the HHRD programme officer in the district, said with the help of the Pakistani community in the US a total of 17 big and small sacrificial animals were slaughtered and the meat was distributed among the deserving families.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2021