PPP would not be allowed to run Karachi on fake mandate: Sirajul Haq

ISLAMABAD, June 23 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Sirajul Haq has said the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would not be allowed to run Karachi on fake mandate.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Sirajul Haq said while addressing a protest demonstration in front of the head office of the electoral watchdog in Islamabad on Friday, must declare the mayor selection process of Karachi as illegal and hold fresh polls after ensuring presence of 31 elected representatives who were kidnapped on the election day. He questioned the ability of the ECP to hold free and fair general elections when it desperately failed to conduct transparent polls for a city mayor.

JI Karachi Emir Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rahman also spoke on occasion, vowing to continue fight for the rights of the city. He said the mafias who divided the people on language, sects and ethnicity were exposed. Karachiites recognized the looters and landgrabbers, and they voted for the JI, he said. The movement for the rights of Karachi, he said, has created awareness all over the country. The city, he said, would soon get rid of the qabza groups and looters, and so did the country.

Sirajul Haq said the ruling party of Sindh had a history of manoeuvring elections, and its refusal to accept the people’s mandate had already caused a huge loss to the country. The leadership of the PPP, he said, could no longer run the country like their sugar mills. The people would decide their leaders, he added.

The JI chief said the titanic of the 13-party alliance was about to sink. He said the prime minister was roaming worldwide with a begging bowl. The rulers, he said, take loans and then use it on their personal benefit, sucking the blood of the poor for repayment.

He said poverty, inflation and unemployment were the result of the ill-conceived economic policies and bad governance of the present and past governments. He said the people were well aware of the friendly wrestling of the tested parties, and now they would vote for the JI to bring about real change and transform Pakistan into an Islamic welfare state.

 

Secretary General JI Pakistan Ameerul Azim, Deputy Chief of the JI and former MNA Mian Muhammad Aslam, JI North Punjab Emir Dr. Tariq Saleem and JI Islamabad Emir Nasrullah Randhawa also addressed the participants of the gathering.