According to media cell of Jamaat Islamic Lahore, he said this while addressing a large public meeting at Karak on Thursday. A noted social figure of the area Colonel Muhammad Khan (r), announced joining the JI with his hundreds of supporters on the occasion. Sirajul Haq said it was high time that the corrupt rulers and their henchmen were in the Odyala jail. The rulers, he said, had not only plundered the national wealth but also sold out national honour by handing over nation's respected lady Dr Aafia Siddiqui besides Eimal Kansi and Yousuf Ramze. The rulers were devoid of any sense of shame and national respect and had done nothing for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, he added. He said the JI had been persistently striving for Dr Aafia's release and it would soon hold an APC on the issue.
The JI chief said that the present system had given nothing to the masses and the nation was not ready to tolerate this system any more. He said there was no semblance of democracy in the political parties of the country except the JI. Sirajul Haq said the present system was opposed to the teachings of Allah and His Prophet and it protected the interests of the criminals, thugs and the mafias. On the other hand, the common man was deprived of basic facilities of life.
He said the rulers believed that by building a few bridges and roads, they had put the country on the path of progress. He said that the problems of the masses could be solved with the enforcement of the Shariah which alone ensured socio-economic justice. He said that as long as the general public was without basic facilities of life, the rulers' claim of progress were hollow. He was confident that in the next elections, the masses would reject the politicians travelling in Pajeros, bullet proof cars and helicopters who stood for the status quo and support the honest and competent leadership of the JI.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017