'Unfortunate' that Imran Khan doesn't have time to condole Hazara community's martyrs: Sirajul Haq

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq said Thursday it was "unfortunate" that Prime Minister Imran Khan did not have time to spare and condole the Hazara community's martyrs even four days after the Machh massacre.

Speaking at the Ittehad-e-Ummah Conference organised in memory of former JI chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Sirajul Haq condemned the Hazara community's targeted killing last week during the Machh massacre.

The JI chief said the premier should have flown to Quetta to meet the bereaved families protesting at the provincial capital's Western Bypass in the freezing cold with the bodies of the deceased colliers. "It's unfortunate that Imran Khan does not have time to condole the martyrs of Hazara community," Haq said.

He added that the Jamaat-e-Islami intended on changing both the leader and the system. Slamming PM Imran Khan, he said the premier "considers the prosperity of Bani Gala [the PTI leader's residence near Islamabad] as Pakistan's development."

The Pakistani nation had become orphaned, Haq added, criticising PM Imran Khan over his residence — for the regularisation of which he had last month paid a fine worth a whopping Rs1.21 million.

'Agenda of British imperialism'

Sirajul Haq has been consistent in his criticism of the premier over the past few days, observing last week how every aspect of life had been "destroyed due to the PTI regime's incompetence and failures." He also lashed out at PM Imran Khan for "failing despite cheating".

At a rally last month in the Qila Ground of the Lakki Marwat district's Sarai Naurang town, the JI chief had said he was trying "to implement the Islamic system," in Pakistan.

He had also said the ruling PTI and the 11-party anti-government alliance. under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), were "pursuing the agenda of British imperialism."