JI stages sit-in against corruption

PESHAWAR: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Peshawar Zone, kicked off its ‘Corruption-Free Pakistan’ campaign by staging a sit-in here on Saturday. Besides activists of the JI, its Peshawar Zone head Maulana Hanifullah, Hashmat Khan, Sirajuddin Qureshi, Umar Javed and Hafiz Hameedullah attended the sit-in outside the Peshawar Press Club. The JI local leaders, while speaking on the occasion, said the menace of corruption had undermined all the institutions in the country.

They said a corruption of around Rs12 billion was taking place every day, adding, the country was on the verge of economic collapse owing to over $70 billion debt.

The JI leaders criticised the political parties that ruled the country for carrying out rampant corruption and said the situation had warranted a campaign against corruption.

The JI, therefore, had no option, but to launch a campaign against the evil of corruption so that the country could be saved from a total collapse, they maintained.

NOWSHERA: The leaders and the activists of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) staged protest against corruption.

Led by the district chief Anwarul Islam and youth president Iftikhar Ahmad, the protesters, carrying banners and placards, chanted slogans the government for carrying out corruption.

They gathered outside the Nowshera Press Club. Speaking on the occasion, they said Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam but a handful of people had taken the nation hostage.