JI flays govt’s agriculture policy

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch said government's policies had done incalculable harm to the agriculture and farmers.

Talking to Kissan Ittehad Chairman Khalid Khokhar on Wednesday, he said growers had to work hard but were not getting due return for their labour as the prices of crops were low while the prices of fertilizer, seed, pesticides and electricity tariff were too high. Due to this, farmers are suffering losses. He said all the political parties and farmers' associations would join hands to protect farmers' interest.

Liaqat Baloch said fall of POL prices was not commensurate with the fall in the international prices and the masses had not been provided due relief on this count.

Earlier in his meeting with Maulana Ismail Shuja’badi of the World Majlis-e-Tahafuz Khatme Nubuwwat, Liaqat Baloch said government was trying to make the constitution and the Islamic  laws ineffective and the Muslim society was being westernised through secular legislation.  However, he said, religious parties would foil the designs of handful secular lobby. He said any change to the law relating to the sanctity of the Holy Prophet and the finality of the Holy Prophet would create numerous problems for the rulers.

Meanwhile, Liaqat Baloch had telephonic contact with JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman and JUP chief Sahibzada Dr Abul Khair Zubair on the government's efforts to alter the ideological character of the state.

They agreed to convene a meeting of the religious parties within a few days to decide a strategy to meet this challenge.