Transparent elections only solution to get country out of crises: Siraj

HYDERABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami leader Siraj-ul-Haq said on Friday that the people of Sindh do not have any basic facilities, and the whole of province is presenting a scene of Mohenjodaro.

He said that the country cannot be run by giving powers to only two parties. The nation has been enslaved for seventy years, and today the common man cannot go to the National Assembly and the Senate because he does not have 250 million rupees to spend on this electoral process. So the common man of the country can do nothing but cry, he added.

The JI leader said the situation of dictators in Bangladesh and Syria is in front of everyone, and the PPP and the PML-N have been in government in Pakistan for years but both are not fulfilling their responsibilities.

There is diversity in the four provinces of the country, as each province has its own issues, including poverty, inflation, water shortage and missing persons, he said. Haq further said that this is the time to end these crises through a national level dialogue. The purpose of the national dialogue should be to conduct transparent elections in the country, because after winning the elections, the person who comes into power asks after two years why he was expelle.

He said that Nawaz Sharif is the creator of the slogan “Mujhe Kyun Nikala” after which Imran Khan also raised the same slogan. Shehbaz Sharif will also raise the slogan of Mujhe Kyun Nikala in some time, so the country needs transparent elections.

Siraj said that government has no writ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, and many problems including missing persons are not being solved, but on the other hand, the salary of the members of the Punjab Assembly has been increased nine hundred times. This is a shame for rulers, he remarked.

He said the Jamaat-e-Islami will raise its voice on the problems of Sindh and will fully support the struggle of Sindh. STP Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said that Pakistan is a multi-linguistics nations’ country in which all nations should be given rights on the basis of equality. He said the parliament of the country should have supremacy and independence so that the country can develop. Votes should be given importance, and warned that instead of votes, if a government was formed by rigging, it will neither be successful nor beneficial to the country.

Earlier, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Sirajul Haq was welcomed by Chairman Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party Dr Qadir Magsi in Qasimabad. Haq offered his condolences on the death Qadir Magsi’s sister. Later, the two leaders exchanged views on the political situation in Sindh and the country.

He said that Sindh has been ruled by the PPP for 15 years but its performance is nothing. There is lawlessness in the entire province under the PPP rule. The upper districts of Sindh are under the rule of robbers who are patronized by the rulers, and the administrative officers are busy giving protocols to the rulers, he alleged.

Qadir Magsi said that Sindh is not being given its share of water, and millions of acres of Sindh’s land has been submerged in the sea due to lack of flow of water into the delta. The 1991 water accord requires at least 10 million acre feet of water to be released downstream from Kotri.

The project of canals on the Indus River will prove to be very disaster for Sindh, and people have rejected it. Sindh will continue its peaceful political struggle until it achieves success for the survival of its Indus River, he said.

STPP leaders Haider Shahani, Hot Khan Gadhi, Dr. Abdul Hameed Memon, Qadir Channa, Somar Magrio, and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Hafiz Tahir Majeed, Muhammad Hanif, Liaqat Ahmed and others were present on this occasion.