Siraj calls for declaring education emergency in country

LAHORE
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has called for declaring education emergency in the country and allocating highest budget after defence for promoting literacy and improving the standard of education.
The JI Ameer stated this while addressing a reception hosted at the Syed Maudoodi Institute for the new entrants to the institute. Speaking on the occasion, Sirajul Haq said that the standard of education could not be raised by handing over educational institutions to the aliens. He said the western NGOs were depriving our youths of their faith and ideology in the name of education and the government had given them a free hand to achieve their evil designs. There could not be a greater misfortune than handing over our new generation to the enemy, he remarked.
Referring to corruption and bad governance of the rulers, he said that the rulers' attention was entirely on projects which consumed steel, instead of brain. He said if the ranks of the government were full of plunderers, who would trace corruption. However, he said, if those travelling in luxury cars and living in palaces were hauled up, all the traces of corruption could be found out. Corruption is done not by the common man but by those occupying high offices and in the corridors of power, he added.
Sirajul Haq said that the rulers who were securing heavy loans from the IMF and World Bank feared the Zionist institutions but not Allah Almighty. When fresh loan is approved from them, their joy knows no bounds and the Finance Minister made this announcement on the TV as if he had liberated Kashmir. These rulers pledging the nation’s future against loans did not have any policy of their own as all their policies were made by the IMF and the World Bank. However, as and when the country was in trouble, these rulers would flee the country.
The JI chief said the colonial powers were converting our schools and colleges into dance and fashion clubs through the NGOs. They were snatching from the youths their golden past and their heroes and injecting their own ideas into the minds of our young ones and the government was patronising exploitation and class-based education system in the country, he added. Referring to the lack of facilities in government schools and colleges, he said, had the children of the rulers and bureaucrats been studying in government schools and colleges, they would not have been without boundary walls and washrooms. He said the JI after coming into power, would introduce uniform education system all over the country. The JI chief said that the education budget in Pakistan was one of the lowest budgets in the world and even the war-ravaged Afghanistan was spending more on education.
He said the ruling elite was keeping the youth illiterate, forcing them to go to Gulf States for odd jobs. He said the present system of exploitation and oppression had been going on for the last 68 years because the masses had been voting for the corrupt elite, the feudal lords and capitalists. He said the lot of the common man would not improve unless the masses voted for honest and competent people from within themselves.
Sirajul Haq paid rich tributes to the services of the former JI chiefs Mian Tufail Muhammad, Qazi Husain Ahmed and Syed Munawar Hasan, for the institute. He said that the students graduating from Syed Maudoodi Institute were occupying high positions in more than 20 countries of the world and they were messengers of the country and the Islamic movement. He hoped that the institute would soon get the status of a university. JI deputy chief Hafiz Muhammad Idrees and the Institute Principal Dr Shabbir Ahmed Mansoori, also spoke on the occasion.
CEC: Deputy Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Asadullah Bhutto on Monday took oath as the Chief Election Commissioner of the JI.
Ameer JIP Senator Sirajul Haq administered the oath of the office to him in the presence of central office-bearers of the party besides large numbers of the JI workers.
Asadullah Bhutto had been nominated for the office by the central Shoora of the JI for addressing the complaints of the JI workers and office- bearers concerning intra-party elections.
Speaking on the occasion, Sirajul Haq said a competent and honest leadership could emerge only through fair and transparent elections held under an impartial election system. He stressed the Election Commission of Pakistan to ensure speedy electoral reforms that had already been promised.