ECP biggest hurdle in way of real democracy: Sirajul Haq

LAHORE, December 29: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami (JI), Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that country was facing a chain of crises because of the incompetence and apathy of the rulers while the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was the biggest hurdle in the way of real democracy.
According to press release, he stated this in a telephonic address to the Ijtema of the women wing of JI Karachi on Tuesday.
Sirajul Haq said the western colonialism was bent upon destroying the social fabric of the Muslim societies and spreading anarchy in the name of women emancipation. He impressed upon the women folk to play an effective role to safeguard their moral values and stability in the society.
He said that the masses were suffering from hunger, poverty and fear as the elite ruling the country were no ready to give the common man the right to lead a respectable living.
It was the constitutional responsibility of the government to provide education, health, shelter and jobs to the masses but the rulers were paying little attention to that.
He said that 70 per cent of the people were not getting pure drinking water while load shedding of electricity and gas was increasing.
The JI chief said that the masses were perturbed over the attitude of the rulers but they did not find a way out of the prevailing situation as corrupt elite managed to come to power again and again because of the corrupt electoral system.
He said that if the Election Commission did not introduce electoral reforms and failed to enforce the code of conduct for elections, the percentage of voting would come down further as the people were fast losing interest in the polls.
He urged the women to rise for the protection of their values. He also the members of the JI women wing to mobilize the women in Karachi to exercise their right to vote an elect honest and able leadership in order to get rid of the corrupt mafia presently in power.
The JI chief said that Karachi was mini Muslim world and mini Pakistan. People from all parts of the country were residing in Karachi. He exhorted the JI workers to contact maximum number of women in the area to convince them to change their voting attitude in order to get rid of the ruling elite.