Sirajul Haq calls for dissolution of national & Sindh assemblies to ensure general elections in the centre & all federating units at the same time
LAHORE, Mar 01 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Sirajul Haq has called for the dissolution of the national and Sindh assemblies to ensure general elections in the centre and all federating units at the same time.
The PDM and the PPP should sacrifice their governments in the national interest, Sirajul Haq said in a statement from Mansoorah on Wednesday.
In the prevailing economic situation, he added, separate polls in two provinces and then in the centre and Sindh would not be affordable to the national exchequer. General elections instead of polls in two provinces could only bring stability, he said.
Sirajul Haq demanded the Election Commission complete local body polls in Karachi. He said the PPP’s provincial government should not interfere with results. He said the mayor of Karachi would be from the Jamaat-e-Islami, warning the Sindh government against stealing people’s mandate.
The JI chief demanded the government release the Gwadar Right Movement leader Maulana Hidayatur Rehman and others detained under illegal cases. He said the government should not push the people of Balochistan to the wall.
Holding the PDM, the PPP and the PTI equally responsible for economic, political and constitutional crises, Sirajul Haq said the ruling parties failed to fulfill their responsibility for public issues. He said the JI watched the politics of so-called big parties closely and also entered into alliances with a few of them in the past for the sake of the country. The JI, he said, reached the conclusion that politics was business and game for the major political players. Therefore, he added, the JI had decided to stay away from them in future. “We would go to the elections on our own symbol. We have nominated our contesters at all national and provincial assembly seats for it.” The JI, he said, would gather them in Islamabad on March 9 and announce its future strategy.
The rulers, he said, targeted the poor at the direction of the IMF, imposing billions of rupees taxes on the masses. The government, he said, was not willing to touch those who held properties abroad and owned foreign bank accounts. Among them, he added, were top politicians, bureaucrats, retired judges and generals. He said 18 powerful politicians, industrialists and property tycoons own Rs4000 billion. Still, they paid taxes equal to the common man, and no institutions had the courage to question them about their properties, he said.
The government of the 14 parties, Sirajul Haq said, wrote history with its bad governance and incompetence during the past months. The JI, he said, will spread the ongoing movement against inflation in every nook and corner of the country.