MQM is a failed story, arrow and tiger are fake, says Siraj

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq said on Thursday his party wanted the society to be rid of the “corrupt elite and feudal lords”.

Addressing a public gathering in the Landhi area, he said Pakistan has been suffering due to all sorts of shortcomings and corruption because of the elite class that has been imposed on the country by the former rulers since they left the country some 75 years ago.

The JI leader said the remnants of those who had sided with the British invaders in the pre-partition subcontinent have been causing problems for the country and the citizens just for their monetary benefits. He said that the JI wants to transform Pakistan into a welfare state that ensures social justice and equality.

About the JI vision, Haq said his party wants to transform Pakistan into a country that ensures equal opportunities of respectful livelihood for all, particularly the youth.

He asked the nation to vote for the JI in order to get rid of feudal lords and the oppressing rulers. He said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement has proved itself “a failed story”, while the arrow and tiger in the political arena are also “fake”.

He said there is a wave of surge for change across the country from Karachi to Khyber, and the time has come to change the fate of Karachi and the rest of Pakistan. He urged the nation to vote for the JI election symbol ‘weighing scale’ on February 8.

Karachi JI emir Engr Hafiz Naeemur Rehman also addressed the convention. He urged the Karachiites to get united under the symbol of scale and said the JI was the only democratic party in the country that represented the poor, labourers, farmers and the middle class. He said that any vote cast for any party other than the JI would serve feudal lords.