Political stability is essential for economic stability: Liaqat Baloch

LAHORE, Jan 15 (SABA): Naib Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Liaqat Baloch has said that political stability is essential for economic stability. He said political negotiations will only be successful when the national political democratic parties and leadership acknowledge their past mistakes and accept the constitutional limits.

While addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Alkhidmat Razi Medical Centre, Liaqat Baloch said that Alkhidmat Foundation is the most important institution of service and trust for the entire country. Providing medical facilities to the poor and middle class is a public and national service, he said. Through its historic services during the floods, COVID-19 (Corona), and now for the oppressed and helpless people of Gaza, Alkhidmat Foundation has made Pakistan’s bright face recognized worldwide, he added.  

He said that the international organizations and the leadership of the Muslim world have played a criminal and cowardly role in Israel’s brutality, human killing, and genocide in Gaza, adding the peace of the entire world is at risk. 

The evil alliance of the United States, Israel, and India has become a great threat to every Muslim country, he said and added the Western world, which destroyed its own civilization and family system through unrestrained freedom, is now bent on destroying Muslim societies by fueling Islamophobia. Muslims will defeat every tactic of Islamophobia through their actions, culture, decency, knowledge, and research, he added. 

Liaqat Baloch, while addressing a dinner hosted by the renowned political, social, and business leader Zafar Yasin Chaudhry in Rawalpindi, along with Mian Muhammad Aslam, Professor Muhammad Ibrahim, Nasrullah Randhawa, and Syed Arif Shirazi, said that the elimination of the usurious economy, usurious banking, and corruption is the only way to stabilize the national economy, adding political stability is essential for economic stability. 

He said the government is simultaneously destroying the agriculture, industry, and construction (housing) sectors. The Prime Minister and Chief Ministers need to reconsider their strategies, he said and added if agriculture and the construction industry are strengthened, the industrial wheel will move, the economic circle will grow, and the common man will get employment.

Liaqat Baloch said that the fundamental responsibility of Parliament is to protect the constitution, democracy, and fundamental rights, but politics has become a prisoner of ego, stubbornness, and undemocratic values. Political negotiations will only be successful when national political democratic parties and leadership acknowledge their past mistakes and accept the constitutional limits, he added. 

To free the Election Commission from the pressure of the establishment and governments, it should be granted administrative, financial, and judicial autonomy, along with constitutional protection, he said. 

In response to questions, Liaqat Baloch said that the new generation is becoming unaware of the Urdu language, which is a major national tragedy. Urdu should be made the official language and the medium of primary education, he said, added examinations for higher jobs should be conducted in both Urdu and English. Nations develop through their national language, he added.