Merit-based appointment process in Pakistan Army is welcoming: Liaqat Baloch
LAHORE, Nov 25 (SABAH): Naib Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, President Political Affairs and National Affairs Committee, Liaqat Baloch has stated that process of appointments in Pakistan Army has been accomplished in the light of Constitution, law, merit and seniority, and it could be a good omen for the country in the light of its futuristic view.
Liaqat Baloch expressed these views while addressing the northern, southern and central Punjab’s political electoral conventions on Friday. He further said the political leadership just for nothing created tornado of army’s appointments while media along with social media empowered it. All the State’s stakeholders need to play their serious and responsible part in the light of the Constitution and law, he suggested.
He said the former Pakistani prime minister and Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was misusing the climax of his popularity while at present there is need of holding dialogue on national priorities, electoral reforms and general elections. He advised the politicians to break the idols of stubbornness and ego to play their true part for national security to putting an end to economic crises.
Naib Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Liaqat Baloch maintained that all the political experiences made on the basis of personhood, popular politics and establishment remained unsuccessful and continued that it practically proved that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Muslim League were not equipped with qualities of setting up an environment of accountability, good governance, rule of Constitution while remaining handless in solving public issues and division of national resources on equal basis.
Liaqat Baloch stated these aforementioned three parties kept continue the same faulty course of governance whereas the Pakistani people want the solution of their hardships. He added the economic crisis was the outcome of riba system, debts and corruption whereas the solution only lies with the enforcement of “Islamic Economic System.”
He further stated that Jamaat-e-Islami embraced the challenge of taking the country out of these crises as it was a well-organized, trustworthy and tends to serve the people and added its workers along with national and provincial assemblies’ candidates will reform the prevailing situation.
Liaqat Baloch stated the government of Sindh could not deprive the masses of Karachi and Hyderabad of their rights pertaining to local bodies’ polls. He stressed upon the government, State’s institutions and the government of Balochistan to sort out problems of protesting people of “Gwadar ko Haq Do Movement.” The government was itself creating hurdles in the project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), he concluded.