Rulers compromised sovereignty of country by surrendering before IMF: Sirajul Haq
LAHORE, June 26 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has said the rulers have compromised the sovereignty of the country by making full surrender on the conditions of the IMF.
“What could be more mockery than that the country is ours but the decision maker is IMF,” he said while addressing the JI workers at Lahore Railway Station on Sunday on the second day of the train march.
Earlier, he began the march from Multan and addressed the party workers at railway stations of Khanewal, Mianchannu, Sahiwal, Okara.
Led by Sirajul Haq, the JI on Saturday launched three-day train march from Rahim Yar Khan in protest against skyrocketing inflation, rampant corruption and interest-based economy.
On the reports that the government had decided to file the appeal against Federal Shariah Court decision against interest-based economy, he warned the rulers against taking the decision.
“I have called the JI meeting to discuss the issue in Mansoorah on Monday morning. The JI will start the third phase of train march from Lahore on Monday evening,” he said, adding if the government kept its decision intact, the JI will announce its strategy in Rawalpindi on conclusion of the train march.
“The government decision will be considered as violation of the Constitution of Pakistan. Riba constitutes war against Allah Almighty and Prophet (PBUH),” he said at the railway station, warning the rulers that JI will no longer tolerate the rulers’ decisions to go in favor of riba.
The riba, he added, was root causes of all the problems facing the country. The government, he said, prepared the budget on the dictation of the IMF, making impossible for a common man to meet both ends. He said at every difficulty the ruling class sought sacrifices from the poor. “How long the masses will keep making sacrifices? Why the ruling elite itself is not ready to sacrifice even its 10 percent wealth for the country?”
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 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. He 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.
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.
Meanwhile, the train march will conclude in Rawalpindi on Monday night. 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.