Govt performance unsatisfactory: Siraj

LAHORE
Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said the masses are extremely dissatisfied with the performance of the federal and provincial governments as the parties coming to power with tall promises have simply worked for their own interests and disappointed people.
He was speaking an oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected provincial ameers of JI at Mansoora on Wednesday. Mian Maqsood Ahmed was sworn as new JI Punjab ameer and Merajul Huda Siddiqui as JI Sindh ameer, for the second term. Mushtaq Ahmed Khan is new ameer for JI, KP, while Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi is new ameer of JI Balochistan.
Sirajul Haq said JI had strived for rapprochement between the government and PTI during the PTI sit-in in Islamabad to provide the government an opportunity to deliver and clear the allegations being levelled against it.
He said the government had promised electoral reforms but there was no progress in that direction. He said the Election Commission had failed to improve its working and its performance in the by-elections was also questionable. He said it was the talk of the town that the by-election was a competition of wealth between the two parties.
JI ameer condemned Shiv Sena’s violence against Muslims and other minorities in India and said that the cricket diplomacy of the Pakistani rulers and exchange of artistes could not end Modi’s enmity for Islam and Pakistan. He said the talk of friendship with India was tantamount to betraying the Kashmir cause.
Sirajul Haq said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had gone to meet US President Obama with the hope that this would help solve the Kashmir issue. He said this was sheer foolhardiness of the Prime Minster because Obama wanted Islamabad to agree to his demands and was not interested in Kashmir solution.
He said the JI stood for an independent judiciary and it had offered huge sacrifices for this cause.
However, he said, the performance of the judiciary was also not satisfactory. He said the judges for whose reinstatement the JI had launched a movement and fought against Pervez Musharraf’s dictatorship were questioning the very structure of the constitution instead of standing by the constitution and democracy.
He said the constitution did not allow any law against Quran and the Sunnah and the Holy Quran declared interest as war against Allah and His Prophet (PBUH). He said neither the parliament nor the judiciary had the right to amend the basic structure of the constitution.
Sirajul Haq said JI was the only democratic party in the country and its agenda was to convert the country into a truly Islamic welfare state free from hunger, illiteracy, disease, corruption and unemployment. He said the JI was a party which did not believe in regional, ethnic and sectarian biases. As such, the JI was the only party capable of uniting people from all parts of the country.