Rulers hindering NAB: Siraj

LAHORE 

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has alleged that the federal and the Punjab governments are creating obstacles to the path of NAB with the claim that the Punjab government is corruption-free. 

Talking to the media after addressing a large Friday congregation at Liberty Market mosque, Sirajul Haq said the prime minister had asked NAB not to defame innocent people in the Punjab.

He alleged that even the judiciary came under pressure. He said if the judiciary had worked in accordance with the wishes of the masses, the country would by now be having the rule of the law and the supremacy of the judiciary.

He said that corruption could be completely wiped out if the government so desired. However, he alleged that the rulers were littered with corruption from head to foot and this also gave a chance to bureaucracy and government institutions to plunder public money.

The rulers had built palaces abroad and the Pakistanis were the biggest buyers of property in the US, Britain, France and the Gulf States. He said that corruption to the tune of Rs1,600 billion had come to surface on in the energy and water sector. He said that the institutions were inefficient and paralysed only because of the rulers’ policies due to which the masses had to suffer.

He said that the entire nation wanted to see the country free of corruption, and expressed the hope that the JI’s corruption-free drive would attract the masses in large numbers. He said the JI had entire record of the corruption mafias and would soon bring this to the media and expose the corrupt.

The JI chief said the west was overjoyed on the passage of the Women Protection Law. He said that the nation was being made slave of the West only for the sake of IMF loans and the rulers were busy in tarnishing the golden teachings of Islam under the pressure of western colonialism.