JI chief wants commission under CJP to probe issue

Panama Leaks

PESHAWAR: Rejecting any commission constituted by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Panama Papers, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq Saturday asked for setting up an independent body to probe the issue.

“An accused can’t constitute a commission to probe allegations against him,” he said and suggested that the Chief Justice of Pakistan should head the commission to probe the allegations levelled in the Panama Papers. “There should be a commission comprising of clean and respectable people to probe the matter,” Senator Sirajul Haq told a convention at the District Council Hall here.

The JI chief said the prime minister of Iceland resigned over Panama Leaks revelations. “And our rulers are even not ready to form an independent commission,” he added.

The JI chief claimed that about Rs12 billion corruption was taking place in Pakistan on daily basis.

Sirajul Haq said an Islamic society ensures all the rights to minorities. “JI wants to make Pakistan a welfare state where everyone enjoys his or her rights,” the JI chief maintained, adding that his party would end corruption and VIP culture and the amount would be spent on the welfare of the people. Sirajul Haq also announced that the people of Malakand would observe shutter down strike on Monday against the extension of the Customs Act to the division.

Talking over the issue of the Customs Act in the Malakand division, Sirajul Haq said the act was an injustice with the people of the area. He asked the general public to fully participate in the strike.

The JI chief who is also member of the Upper House of Parliament said the people of Malakand deserved 80 percent royalty on the forests. He asked the government to give the right of ownership of forests to the people.