Siraj asks Trump to accommodate all religions

Appeals to SC to take suo motu of written-off loans

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has asked the US president-elect Donald Trump to demonstrate a sense of accommodation for all religions, including Islam, pull out US troops from all Muslim countries and abandon the policy of grabbing Muslim world's resources to prove himself a responsible international leader.

Speaking at a workers convention of JI Lahore at Mansoora on Thursday, Sirajul Haq appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo motu of all those who had got their bank loans written off and order the recovery of every penny from them. He said public wealth had been plundered by the ruling junta and not by the poor workers. He said the plunderers whether from the ruling party or the opposition must be brought to accountability and nobody should be spared.

He urged the apex court to listen to the grievances of 200 million people who were denied basic necessities of life by a few families. He said the nation had tried the feudal lords from Larkana as also the capitalists from Lahore but whoever came to power, plundered the public money with impunity and added to the problems of the masses instead of solving them. The ruling parties simply protected one another’s corruption and divided the masses on racial, ethnic and sectarian grounds to prolong their rule, he said.

Meanwhile, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch said the US policies under Bush and Obama created chaos in the whole world and Donald Trump should bring about a change by ushering in an era of peace and development. He said Americans had voted for Donald Trump against all popular surveys, analysis and expectations and now he should prove himself worthy of the Presidency by acting as a man of peace. He said whichever party was in power in Washington, they had their own priorities and interests.

He said it was imperative that the world community abandoned its indifference to Kashmir and Palestine. He said Pakistan and India were both nuclear powers and the responsibility for the present tension in the region lay with India. The permanent members of the UN Security Council should realise the growing threat to world peace on this score and play their role in implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir, he added.

Sarwar: Former governor of Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has said that across the board accountability is essential for the survival of country and strengthening the roots of the country.

In a statement issued on Thursday, he said PTI was standing by the rule of law and supremacy of Constitution. He added the Supreme Court would decide Panama Leaks case according to the justice and law. 

Protection of lives and property of people is responsibility of the government. Two patients lost lives in Mayo hospital due to strike of young doctors, he said. 

PITB: A delegation from National Services Youth Council Colombo, Sri Lanka, visited e-Learn programme of Punjab IT Board (PITB) at Arfa Tower.

The 15-member delegation gathered from all over Sri Lanka was led by Youth Parliament Minister of Sri Lanka Mr Kasun Wickramasingha. E-Learn‘s team presented the digital content and shared ongoing educational programmes and initiatives of the Punjab government with the delegation. The delegation was informed that the PITB had initiated exemplary IT based education projects in Punjab that were being replicated by the other provinces such as Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and even Islamabad.

Joint Director cum Project head of e-learn programme Kashif Farooq told that Punjab was the first province in Pakistan that had made monitoring data of 53,000 schools public. He said “our smart monitoring programme had significantly increased attendance and performance of teachers in schools. The monitoring staff members have been bound to visit each school once a month and send digital reports on attendance, cleanliness and missing facility through our central dashboard. This practice has eliminated fake visits and reports as were found before smart monitoring.” Farooq said that the e-Learn Punjab programme had digitised all science and maths books of the Class 6 to 10 and the lessons were being delivered on LED screen in eight selected schools of Punjab under its pilot project through computer tablets given to their teachers.

Comparing the youth educational and cultural values in both the countries, the delegates highly appreciated eLearn’s revolutionary initiatives to blend technology and education to avoid rote-learning.

Wickramasingha applauded and shared his thoughts of proposing collaboration between e-Learn Punjab and Sri Lankan government in education sector.