Nation, armed forces on same page against India: Siraj

LAHORE: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the Pakistani nation and the armed forces are on the same page against India and in case of any aggression will give a befitting response to the enemy which will end up in the emergence of several new Pakistans within India.

He advised prime minister to present himself for accountability to avoid public accountability. He said corrupt system corruption and Pakistan could not go together.Sirajul Haq expressed these views while was addressing a news conference at Mansoora on Sunday at the conclusion of the JI Shoora meeting on Sunday. The JI chief was flanked by the central leaders of the party.

Siraj said the Shoora had reviewed the rulers’ indifference on the issues of PanamaLeaks and resolved that if the government did not constitute an independent judicial commission for equity into the matter and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not present himself for accountability the only option with the opposition would be to hold public protests.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI Shoora had reviewed the situation in Held Kashmir following the martyrdom of Burhan Muzaffar Wani. He said the Pakistani nation paid rich tributes to the Kashmiris for their sacrifices and stood with them in their struggle for liberation. The Shoora resolved to defend the homeland till their last breath and the last drop of blood in their veins.

The JI chief said that the Prime Minister Nawaz had presented the Kashmir issue at the UN in accordance with the sentiments of the nation. However, he said there was need for practical steps in the same direction.

He noted that US President Obama had not mentioned the Kashmir issue in his address to the UN General Assembly which reflected the weakness of Pakistani diplomacy. He said it seemed the government had not made preparations on this score at the international and diplomatic fronts.

Siraj said he had been expecting that the premier in his UN address would take up the issue of Modi’s meddling in Balochistan and Baltistan and the executions of JI leaders in Bangladesh in violation of the 1974 agreement between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. However, this was not done. Similarly, he said the prime minister had not raised the issue of Pakistan’s respected daughter Dr Aafia Siddiqui or even the RAW agent Kulboshan who had been arrested by the security agencies.

Siraj asked what steps the government had taken for the recovery of the 275 billion dollars lying in Swiss banks. He said it was the demand of the nation to cleanse politics of corruption and to send the plunderers to jail. He said the JI would continue its drive against corruption within the courts and outside.

He told a questioner that the opposition parties would present a common line of action against corruption in the first week of October. He said the JI wanted the accountability of all previous governments besides the PML-N government. He said the JI was against violence or show of force. However, he said if the government had solved these issues in the assemblies the masses would not have been forced to take to street.

He said JI would protest peacefully on 30th September in Faisalabad against PanamaLeaks and corruption of rulers. He said on 1st and 2nd October protest would be carried out in Balochistan against PanamaLeaks and corruption.