Retirement has earned Gen Raheel greater respect and love: Siraj

MULTAN: The Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the respect Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif has earned by opting to retire on schedule is far greater than that he would have earned through an extension in his service, and the nation will remember his services forever.

The Jamaat chief was addressing Multan district Bar on Thursday. Sirajul Haq said that the accountability of the rulers was the call of the nation.  He said the Supreme Court knew that the eyes of the nation were on it. 

Multan district Bar chief Azimul Haq Pirzada, High Court Bar Multan chief Jamshed Hayat and secretary of the Bar, Imran Khakwani, also spoke on the occasion. Sirajul Haq said that Southern Punjab was suffering because of the injustice of the rulers. 

The JI chief asked the nation “not to run after Mughal princes or Hollywood actors” and instead take the Quaid-e-Azam as their model so that the country could be transformed into a true Islamic welfare state.

Sirajul Haq said that nature has blessed this country with unlimited resources. Had these resources been spent on public welfare the condition of the masses would not have been so miserable, he added. 

“The rulers have not only plundered the public money but also obtained huge loans from abroad and local banks, heavily burdening the country and the nation and making them slaves of the IMF and World Bank,” he said. 

He said the country at present was under foreign loans to the tune of 73 billion dollars.  On the other hand assets of 375 billion dollars owned by the Pakistanis were lying abroad, he said. 

The Jamaat chief said that if the country had a true national government not only all the loans could be paid off but the masses could be provided with basic facilities of education, health and good employment.