Siraj urges masses to reject corrupt people in elections

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the corruption mafia who has been in the corridors of power for more than three times could not mislead the masses by levelling allegations against one another.

Talking to different delegations at Mansoora on Tuesday, Sirajul Haq said that the gang of the corrupt was again out to hoodwink the people by changing faces and carrying different banners. Sirajul Haq urged people to exercise their vote in the next elections for wiping out corruption and reject those who had plunged the country into the mire of poverty, price hike, unemployment and lawlessness. He said that the plunderers should not be given another chance to loot public money. The JI chief stressed the Election Commission to enforce electoral reforms before the polls and all those facing charges of corruption should not be allowed to contest the elections till they were cleared by the courts. Sirajul Haq congratulated the nation for observing the Kashmir Solidarity Day with great zeal and fervor. Meanwhile, the custodian of the shrine of Husainia, Pir Sanaullah Husaini, called on the JI chief in Islamabad and lauded the JI’s efforts for unity of the Ummah. Meanwhile, Chairman All Parties Conference Held Kashmir Mir Waiz Umar Farooq has expressed deep gratitude to the people of Pakistan for demonstrating their complete solidarity with the Kashmiris and said this had greatly raise the morale of the Kashmiris. The Kashmiri leader rang up Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Bloch, to convey his sentiments and impressed upon Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and the national leadership to understand the sentiments of the nation and frame a bold and clear Kashmir policy and adopt an effective diplomatic strategy at the world level for the solution of the Kashmir issue. Liaqat Baloch noted that the Kashmir issue was the oldest issue pending before the United Nations. He said that Held Kashmir had practically become a jail due to the atrocities of the Indian occupation forces.