Corruption biggest threat, says Siraj

LAHORE

Religious leaders have termed corruption the biggest problem in the country that has paralysed and plagued every walk of life and is threatening the foundations of the country. 

They were addressing a seminar titled “Corruption Free Pakistan”, organised by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on Wednesday, chaired by its ameer Senator Siraj-ul-Haq. 

Siraj-ul-Haq warned that secular elements were conspiring to destroy the ideological foundations of the country and planning to bring a ‘modern’ resolution in place of Pakistan Resolution besides changing the constitution of the country. He said such conspiracies would secularise the country and destroy the national harmony bound by the bond of Islam, thus plunge the country into turmoil and anarchy. 

He said the ideological corruption had led to the split of the country in 1971 and enemy agents were once again trying to play the same dirty game with the security of the country. Siraj said Corruption Free Pakistan was the demand of every Pakistani and not of the JI alone, and added Pakistan and corruption could not go together any more. He said the ruling elite were misappropriating public money and they had already misappropriated 375 billion dollars of the poor nation and transferred to banks abroad and they could not be well-wishers of the nation and the country. He said unless the nation was fully awake and stood behind the institutions, these institutions would not apprehend big plunderers. He said the officers on duty to provide relief to the affected of the natural calamities and the calamity stricken people of Thar were living in posh bungalows of Murree and Abbotabad while the calamity affected were living in huts.