Jamaat-e-Islami launches three-day train march against inflation, corruption & interest-based economy
MULTAN, June 25 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami on Saturday launched three-day train march from Rahim Yar Khan in protest against skyrocketing inflation, rampant corruption and interest-based economy.
Led by JI Emir Sirajul Haq, the march ended in Multan on first day where he addressed the party workers and warned the rulers to take measures to provide relief to the masses or get ready to go home.
The march will conclude in Rawalpindi on Monday evening. JI Emir will also address the public gathering in the city.
On the first day of the event, Siraj also addressed the charged crowd at railway stations of Lodhran, Khanpur and Bahawalpur. JI vice-emirs Liaqat Baloch and Dr Mirajulhuda Siddique were accompanying Sirajul Haq during the protest march.
Addressing media and party workers at Multan station, Sirajul Haq said the JI was holding the march for the rights of the people. He said inflation had turned the life of people miserable. The three parties, he said, were responsible for the plight of people.
He said the government had prepared the budget on the dictation of the IMF. He said the budget document was death warrant for the poor people of Pakistan. It had become impossible for a common man to even take a breath in prevailing inflation and unemployment, he said.
The JI chief said the people were starving and unable to meet both ends due to massive hike in prices of basic commodities including petrol, electricity and diesel rates. The government, he said, failed to control corruption which plagued the country. The NAB, he said, had become a toothless body as rulers wanted no accountability.
The JI chief said the riba was the root cause of prevailing economic crisis. He said the time had approached the rulers made some sacrifices instead of making drone attacks of inflation on poor.
He said the PML-N led unity government had also failed to bring any change after three and half years of destruction under PTI regime. The three parties, he said, were exposed badly and people were fed up from them. He said the ruling parties were equally responsible for the political and economic crises. It was due to their (three parties) ill-conceived policies that Pakistan had reached to the situation where it had no money even to pay the salaries of the government employees, he said.
Sirajul Haq said the people of Pakistan had taken stand for their rights now. He said the JI will continue struggle for making Pakistan into welfare Islamic state.
The train march will be held in three phases—from Rahim Yar Khan to Multan on first day, from Multan to Lahore on second day and from Lahore to Rawalpindi on third and last day on Monday.