People with businesses abroad have no right to do politics in Pakistan: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq has said Pakistan has the potential to develop like Europe but plundering by the rulers had reduced it to a beggar state.
He was addressing the concluding session of the three-day Ahbab Convention in London on Monday, said a message received at the Mansoora.
Sirajul Haq demanded an indiscriminate accountability of all those who had plundered the public money. He said rulers were transferring the public wealth abroad and were expanding their businesses there instead of within the country.
He said all those who did not want to do business in the country, had no right to indulge in politics here.
JI deputy secretary general, Muhammad Asghar and JI spokesman in Britain Syed Shaukat Ali were also present.
Siraj advised corrupt politicians to mend their ways. He said if the plunderers were not ready to bring their wealth back to the country, they should leave the country. He said it was high time to say farewell to the political Brahmins. He urged the masses to support the JI in order to get rid of the tyrant feudal lords and capitalists. He said thousands of Pakistanis working in Britain and Europe were ready to stand by the JI for building an Islamic and prosperous Pakistan.
Nature had blessed Pakistan with unlimited resources of men and material and talented and hardworking Pakistanis were doing wonders in every part of the world, he added. However, the country had remained underdeveloped only due to the loot of the rulers. The rulers’ corruption had brought disgrace to the country, he added.
He said every newborn of the country was heavily indebted to the IMF and the World Bank. He said if the country was liberated from the hold of corrupt rulers and plunderers, Pakistanis would not need to go abroad for jobs.
He urged the overseas Pakistanis to maintain the identity of the country and their own self and prove to the world that they were second to none with regard to culture and morals. He impressed upon around 45,000 Pakistani students studying in England to continue hard work and achieve distinction and then come back to the country for playing their role in national development.