While green passport has lost respect in world, the ruling elite equally ill-treat country’s citizens: Sirajul Haq
LAHORE, Nov 29 (SABAH): While the green passport has lost respect in the world, the ruling elite equally ill-treat country’s citizens, says Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Sirajul Haq.
“Women have long been deprived of their basic rights in Pakistan. Rampant increase in female harassment and child rape cases, evils of dowry, vani and honor killing have plagued the society. But the rulers pay no attention to address the problems and are engaged in protecting self-interest,” Sirajul Haq said while addressing the youth convention of women at Al-Hamra Hall on Monday. The JI women chapter organized the event.
Sirajul Haq said a common man who paid taxes was not less respected than the President, Prime Minister, Chief Justice and Army Chief. “People need justice. They want their basic rights,” he said and asking the rulers to justify their heaps of wealth in the country where majority of people lacked even clean drinking water facility. Millions of children were out of schools due to poverty, hundreds of thousands young educated people were jobless and majority of population were without basic medical facilities in Pakistan, he said.
“Rulers looted the country and stashed their money in shell company. How shameful these people are?” Sirajul Haq said, adding the overseas Pakistanis sent their money in Pakistan while rulers put their wealth in foreign banks.
The PTI, he said, promised to bring change but it kept the status quo intact and failed to introduce even a single program for the welfare of the people in past three years. The prime minister, he added, was still making false claims and trying to keep the people in darkness.
The nation, he said, had fully recognized the feudal lords, waderas, corrupt capitalists and mafias and was no more ready to trust the PTI, the PML-N and the PPP. If the marshal laws destroyed this country, the three ruling parties were also equally responsible for the plight of the masses, he said.
“People wants Islamic system now. They need the country for which millions of Muslims of this region rendered sacrifices. The JI is the only option left with the people.”
Later, talking to journalists, Sirajul Haq said the establishment should stop interference in political matters if it wanted to avoid public criticism. To a question, he said the JI would give full representation to youth and women in the local body polls and general elections. He said the PTI wasted three years and failed to bring any change. He said the government lacked capacity to fix the issues.