JI to step up anti-corruption drive after Eid, says Siraj

LAHORE

JI ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said the party will step up its drive against corruption after Eidul Azha to get rid of the corrupt rulers. 

Talking to different delegations at Mansoora on Sunday, Sirajul Haq said the government had failed to set up commission on corruption and the Panama Leaks. He said it was the government’s responsibility to check corruption and misuse of public money but the government’s attitude showed that it was least interested in this task.

He said JI wanted the rulers to complete their five year term but the government’s failure on all fronts proved that the rulers wanted to go home soon as they were not giving any importance to public protests on different issues. 

He said huge amounts of public money were spent on the Public Accounts Committees, the Ehtisab Commission, NAB and other such institutions but these institutions were mostly used to harass the opposition and to compel the opposition members to switch over to the government side. Whenever, there was a demand for opening the case of any government favourite, the official machinery was upset, he said and added files of about 150 cases of mega corruption were lying with NAB which was however silent on these due to the government pressure. 

He reiterated his demand that corruption of national assets should be declared terrorism and treachery and all those involved in these crimes be barred from holding any public office for life and their properties should be confiscated.

Sirajul Haq said the head of the government was the representative of the people and was supposed to be the custodian of the national interests. But, unfortunately, the present rulers did not fulfill these pre-conditions as they neither enjoyed the public confidence nor the national interests were safe in their hands. On the other hand, he said, the rulers were giving preference to their personal interests over national interests.

He said the rulers had always wanted the general public to make sacrifices for larger national interest but the masses had by now got sick of this demand and were bent upon bringing the rulers to accountability.

JI Punjab chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed informed the JI chief about the preparations for the JI sit-in at Faisalabad on September 29.

Seminar: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch has said that terrorism at the Twin Towers and Pentagon in the US fifteen years ago was a well thought out conspiracy that had practically led to a conflict of religions and civilisations and imposed an undeclared war on the world.

Speaking at a seminar in connection with the 9/11 tragedy in the city on Sunday, he said that thousands of people had perished in the tragedy but the reports of impartial inquiries into the incident had not been made public. 

Liaqat Baloch said that millions of people had been put to death in the war against terrorism. At the same time, a clash between Islam and Christianity had begun while the Zionists, Jews and Zionism had been given protection. The JI leader said that after 15 years of 9/11, the US and international organisations should try to search out the path towards peace and tolerance in the world instead of heading to the wrong direction. Islam and the western world should shake the network of the Zionist conspiracies, he added. Later, addressing a function in connection with the death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,  Liaqat Baloch paid rich tribute to the founding father who led the nation to independence. He said the Quaid-e-Azam had desired Pakistan to become a true Islamic state and added that the dream of the Quiad could be realised only by getting rid of the corrupt and selfish leadership.

Elected: The president of Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) Pakistan, Sarfraz Naqvi, has been elected as president of Mutahidda Talaba Mahaz (MTM). According to a press release a meeting of Mustafvi Students Movement (MSM), Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), Peoples Students Federation (PSF), Jaffria Students, Alhamdia Students, Jamiat Talaba Islam, Islami Tehreek-e-Talaba and other student organisations was held at Minhaj Secretariat where they also elected MSM central president Sohail Cheema as general secretary of the MTM.