Ruling parties lock horns for support of establishment: Sirajul Haq

LAHORE, Nov 13 (SABAH): Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Sirajul Haq Sunday stated that it is deplorable that politics of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) revolves around the appointment of a single army general and that their politics can only run under the umbrella of establishment.

Sirajul Haq expressed these views while talking to media persons on the occasion of training workshop of office-bearers from different districts and wedding ceremony of Emir Jamaat-e-Islami district Sheikhupura Rana Tuhfa Dastgir, son. 

He said that ruling parties Pakistan including Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Democratic Movement were at conflict with each other for gaining support of the establishment and continued all their politics runs under the umbrella of establishment. He expressed his optimism that youth will put the country on the trajectory of development in the offing.

These were the people who proved themselves unfaithful during the last 75 years, he said, today’s country problems including poverty and illiteracy were gifts of these monsters. He was of the view that Jamaat-e-Islami wishes the supremacy of Constitution instead of a single person or single family, and added the day is not far when the youth from the Jamaat-e-Islami platform will be victorious in their decisive democratic struggle, hence the homeland will commence to progress in real meanings.

Sirajul Haq said that so-called experiences of martial law and democracies had come to naught whereas the homeland needs an Islami System. He welcomed the recent government’s announcement of taking back appeals in favour of riba system and stated it should now put in place a mechanism for implementing an Islamic economic system and abolishing interest-based system in the light of Federal Shariat Court’s verdict.

Emir Jamaat said that they have invited all the parliamentary parties for holding discussion on the three-point agenda for establishment of supremacy of the Constitution, electoral reforms and putting an end to the role of establishment in politics. As the establishment had pledged to remain away from the politics of the country now this duty lies on the politicians to prepare a mechanism in connection with this and if the need of framing legislation arises then it should also be undertaken, he pressed.

Sirajul Haq maintained that all the matters were deliberated when he paid a visit to enquire about the health of former prime minister and Chairman PTI Imran Khan at Lahore and continued that Jamaat will propagate the three-point agenda to the other parties as well. “Let us frame a new social contract for keeping the establishment away from the country’s politics,” he added.

He expressed his displeasure over the approach of political parties towards strengthening the country’s institutions as they remained hell-bent upon influencing the courts, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and establishment, saying all their war revolved around this single point. While stressing upon the need of electoral reforms, he said if elections were held without bringing reforms they will remain controversial as no one will accept them and it will further exacerbate the situation.

Sirajul Haq said that unprivileged masses were suffering as the central and provincial governments had locked horns with each other and added inflation and unemployment had made the lives of the masses awful as they were not even capable of paying school fees of their offspring.