Siraj flays passage of Sindh Assembly Bill

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq slated a Bill passed by the Sindh Assembly empowering provincial government to withdraw any case before the courts and said this was a blatant attempt to protect criminals.

Commenting on the passage of controversial Bill on Saturday, he said the amended law would be used to achieve political ends by protecting the party-men involved in crimes and corruption.

Sirajul Haq said crime had been considerably reduced in Karachi because of the operation and citizens had heaved a sigh of relief. However, he said the amended law would encourage criminals and lawbreakers and the ruling parties would not be prepared to hand over their workers to the law enforcement institutions. He said if other assemblies also adopted similar laws, none of the criminals would remain in jails. He said such moves would seriously harm the judicial process for eradication of crime and for the supremacy of law.

Meanwhile, the JI Ameer has welcomed the prime minister’s decision to visit Saudi Arabia and Iran and expressed the hope that this will yield positive results and help in ending the tension between the two Islamic states which was the need of hour. 

action: Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Ameer Rashid Naseem said the Supreme Court's verdict declaring the video of flogging of a Swat's girl as fake had exposed the deep and widespread conspiracies of Islam’s enemies in Pakistan.

In a statement on Saturday, he said the apex court should also have recommended a suitable action against all those involved in the conspiracy that paved the way for military operation in Swat.

He said anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan forces had been using the NGOs to  malign Islam and Pakistan and harm its Islamic identity. He stressed that directors and actors of this drama must be fully exposed and handed down exemplary punishment. Rashid Naseem said conspiracies of the colonial powers against this country were not new. Meanwhile, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch in a statement called upon the Punjab government to upgrade technical staff in the government departments in their new scales to remove the unrest among them on this score. He said while the clerical staff in the government departments had been allowed upgrade, the technical staff including computer operators had been denied this benefit which was unjust.