JI to send nation’s ToRs to CJ, says Siraj

Rallies against corruption on May 1

LAHORE

JI ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said the plunderers will have to return the public money or go to Adiala Jail. 

Addressing a sit in outside the Punjab Assembly Sunday afternoon, he said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seemed to be possessing Aladdin’s genie that enabled his family to multiply its wealth within years. He announced holding rallies against corruption on May 1 all over the country, and would carry its campaign against corruption to every nook and corner of the country. He suggested that the PM should also pass on the genie to the poverty-stricken nation to change its fate. 

Sirajul Haq said the statement of the prime minister on the Panama Leaks differed from those of his sons and his spouse, and added that those involved in moral corruption had no right to govern this country. 

He said the government desired that the opposition parties should differ on the Terms of References (ToRs) for enquiry. However, he requested the opposition parties to shun differences on this important issue and show large heartedness by remaining united. He said: “We would send a ToR to the Chief Justice on behalf of the nation so that every penny of the looted wealth could be recovered.

The JI chief said it was an irony that the rulers’ own businesses were progressing by leaps and bounds, the national institutions such as Steel Mill, PIA, were running in losses. He deplored that the NAB had become an institution of bargaining and he who plundered one billion, was given a clean chit by paying off simply Rs 50000,000 and swallowed the remaining amount with impunity. Sirajul Haq said that the JI believed in change through ballot but the corrupt electoral system had made it impossible for the common man to contest elections. Now only the wealthy and the criminals could return to the assemblies. 

Addressing the gathering, JI secretary-general Liaqat Baloch said that the corruption was increasing lawlessness, terrorism and extremism.