JI to start campaign against corruption: Siraj

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said that JI's movement against corruption has united the nation.  

Had the rulers been sincere, the process of accountability would have started by now, but they feared they would be the first target of accountability, he said while addressing a meeting to review JI’s Corruption-Free Pakistan campaign at Mansoora Tuesday.

Sirajul Haq said that JI's movement against corruption had united the nation.

He expressed sorrow that neither the judicial commission for accountability had been set up nor the 1956 law on the subject amended so far.

He said keeping silent over the loot and plunder would be the biggest form of hypocrisy.

He declared that JI would fight against the promoters of corruption on all fronts in order to eliminate political and economic terrorism in the country and would chase them everywhere.

He said certain elements were trying to change the direction of accountability but added that masses would not allow that. He said the objective of JI’s drive against corruption was to retrieve the plundered wealth from the mafia and channelise it towards the well-being of the masses.

He said if the corruption to the tune of Rs12 billion per day was controlled and nation’s wealth lying in foreign countries was brought back, the masses could be provided free education and health facilities, homes to the homeless and the tariff of electricity and gas could also be cut down considerably to provide relief to the common man. 

Meanwhile, a JI spokesman said a special messenger of Senator Sirajul Haq reached Turkey Tuesday with a message of greetings for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The messenger, JI’s foreign affairs director, Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, carried a message of congratulations for Erdogan on the failure of military coup against him and to commend the glorious sacrifices offered by the Turkish people for the democratic system.

The message said that a wave of jubilation had spread among the people of Pakistan over the failure of the military coup in Turkey.