Rulers must quit for failing to protect country’s sovereignty: Siraj

RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Wednesday while referring to US drone attack in Balochistan said that incumbent rulers should quit as they had failed to protect and uphold sovereignty of the country.

He said that the existence and sovereignty of the country was at stake because of the cowardly rulers who had slavish mentality. “The US first carries out drone attack on Pakistan’s soil and then informs our prime minister about it,” he regretted while addressing a gathering at Rawalpindi Railway Station during JI train march against corruption.

He said the US had shattered the country’s sovereignty through drone attacks. “I would like to remind the rulers of the historic saying of Tipu Sultan that a single day’s life of a lion is better than hundred years’ life of a jackal”, he remarked.

Jamaat-e-Islami’s Corruption Free Pakistan Train March kicked off at Peshawar on Wednesday morning with the JI chief Senator Sirajul Haq declaring that the corridors of powers must be cleansed of the corrupt for whom proper place was the Adiala jail.

Sirajul Haq said it was only because of corruption of the rulers that the masses were deprived of basic facilities of life, their children were without education and health facilities and millions could not get even clean drinking water. “It is because of corruption that doors of education and health facilities are closed on children of the poor class,” the JI ameer said.

Sirajul Haq warned if an impartial and transparent inquiry into the PanamaLeaks was not held or the verdict of the judicial commission on this score was not implemented, a sea of the people would march on Islamabad and drive the rulers out of their lodges. 

He said that the homes of the poor were without water while heaps of currency notes were being recovered from the palaces and hideouts of the bureaucrats. “ Pakistan and corrupt mafia cannot go side by side anymore,” he said.

He said that the workers and the farmers were not getting due return of their hard labour and the farmers were putting their crops on fire.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI leaders in Bangladesh were sacrificing their lives in love for this country while the rulers in Islamabad were amassing wealth.

 Meanwhile, the JI Train March was given a rousing welcome at Nowshera, Attock, Hasan Abdal, Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Gujrat and Guranwala. JI central leaders, provincial chiefs besides local level leadership and a large number of youth received the Train March.  

Addressing big gatherings at major railway stations en route to the Punjab capital, he said the entire nation had risen against corruption and would not rest until the cancer of loot and plunder was wiped out.

He said that all those whose names had appeared in the PanamaLeaks should voluntarily quit politics and their government posts.  The Train March from Peshawar to Karachi is part of Jamaat-e-Islami’s countrywide movement against corruption which started in March last.