Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the PTI government was "new edition" of the past governments and its five months output was nothing except claims and empty slogans. While addressing the central Shoora of the JI at Mansoora, he said there was a change only in the name as the policies had remained unchanged. He said that the past rulers had betrayed the Pakistan ideology which resulted in the fall of Dhaka.

He said the responsibility of the colossal debt on the country lay with the politicians who have been returning to the assemblies on the ticket of one party or the other. He said that those in power at present are not new. The JI chief said that partial accountability would not reform society and a ruthless accountability was the need of the hour. He said that all those who had plundered the public money, devoured huge bank loans and transferred their wealth abroad must be brought to the dock and made to account for their wealth. He said this was the demand of the whole nation and not the JI alone.

Sirajul Haq said that not even a penny of the looted wealth had been recovered so far. He said that the nation would not believe the claims of the rulers unless the plundered wealth lying abroad is retrieved so that the country doesn't have to ask for financial help from anyone.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019