Govt has nothing to its credit: Siraj

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Siraj-ul-Haq has lamented that government has nothing to its credit so far as it has wasted nation’s precious time and wealth on whims and wishes, and it did not appear to last long.

The government has neither developed the country nor protected its ideology, he said while delivering Friday sermon at Mansoora Masjid. A government could not survive merely on propaganda, he added. It would have been better for the rulers to evolve a system of accountability for all, since the more the accountability was delayed, the greater would be the public wrath against rulers.

Siraj-ul-Haq said from the very first day, JI had been stressing upon the rulers to evolve a system for accountability and for the recovery of the plundered public wealth. However, he said, rulers delayed the matter to gain time. He said some people wanted to hush up the issues of Panama Leaks, Dubai Leaks and London Leaks so that the plunderers could digest the looted billions. However, he said, the tricks of these elements would not succeed. He urged the judiciary to take notice of the utterances of Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad and Mustafa Kamal against each other. Referring to women rights, he said Islam had given such rights to womenfolk as were not available in any other religion. He said before the advent of Islam, womenfolk were an oppressed lot with the status of mere commodity. In the Holy Quran, there was specific mention of womenfolk and Islam gave respect to women as mothers, daughters, sisters and wives. Islam also gave women the right to inheritance which all other societies and religions had denied them. He said only two percent secular people in the country were holding the entire society hostage and were exploiting womenfolk in the name of women rights.

He said JI congregation at Aza Khel, KP on October 22 and 23 would determine the future course of politics in the province and herald an Islamic revolution. The Aza Khel Ijtema would be followed by an Ijtema of JI Punjab at Lahore on October 28 to 30 and it would end with an Islam march which would be participated by a record number of people from all over the province.

Meanwhile, the JI has welcomed the Sindh High Court orders banning liquor sale in the province, terming it historic and demanding the federal and other provincial governments to follow suit following the divine injunction. JI naib ameer Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha, in a statement, demanded that liquor factories all over the country and its import should also be completely banned.