LAHORE, December 19: Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the country was being ruled by the agents of the East India Company who had secured big Jagirs from the British rulers for their treachery towards the Muslims.
Addressing the central parliamentary advisory council of the JI at Mansoora, he said that a movement similar to the historic Pakistan Movement was imperative to free the nation from the hold of these slaves of the world imperialism.
The JI chief expressed deep grief over the massacre in the Syrian city Halab and deplored the silence of the Muslim world and the United Nations in this regard. He said that the historic city of four million people had been turned into ruins and even women and d children were not allowed to leave. Hospitals and educational institutions were also targeted. .
Continuing, Sirajul Haq said that the rulers had no moral ground to remain in power after the surfacing of the allegations of corruption against them. He said it was an irony that a motorcycle rider was detained for not having documents of his motor bike but the country’s rulers who did not documents of their properties worth trillions were still clinging to their offices. He said that the ruler were carrying on their publicity campaign out of public exchequer under the cover of opening ceremonies of development projects and adds worth billions were being dished out every day.
However, he said, the general public was demanding accountability of the loot and plunder. He said the rulers should not be under the impressing that the Panama leaks issue would be thrown to the winds and they would be let free.
Sirajul Haq further said that the present electoral system did not guarantee fair, free and transparent elections in 2018. Under the present electoral system, the electorate was unable to vote freely, The elections were a game of wealth under which the wealthy and elite had been commanding public opinion through coercion and rigging. A few elite families had been purchasing the loyalties of the administration and the police. Due to these weaknesses, the wealthy were investing in politics to protect their illegal wealth and to make more money.
He demanded that in order to overcome these weaknesses, the spending of every party and candidate in the elections should be fixed so that the common citizens could also contest the polls.-Sabah
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