Siraj urges nation to prepare for revolution

NOWSHERA: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) head Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the nation should prepare for a revolution as Pakistan will be changed by enforcing Islam.

Sirajul Haq was addressing on the first day of the JI congregation being held at Azakhel in the Nowshera district on Saturday.

In his speech to the male participants, Senator Sirajul Haq said it was time for bringing about a change in the country. He said the masses have given a chance and tested socialism, nationalism, secularism, status quo and voted for capitalists, landlords and the rich but all of them failed to come up to their expectations. He said that Pakistan would be changed by implanting the true spirit of Islam as everyone would be given his or her right without any hindrance.

He asked the workers to spread the message of JI and persuade the members of other political parties to play their role in heralding a revolution in the country.

The JI chief said the wealthy people and capitalists were the real rulers of the country and none of them could be held accountable. He said the incumbent system of government had failed to provide justice and relief to the poor. “The JI would bring about a system of governance in which all the citizens would have equal rights,” he added.

Criticising the PML-led federal government, he said it did not care for the Pakistanis stuck up in Saudi Arabia and unable to return home. He alleged that the US chose the leaders for Pakistan to serve its interests. “The US has prepared a new generation of so-called leaders for the next 20 years,” he claimed. “When the people are fed up with the rulers, the US and its Western allies replace them with their other puppets,” he maintained.

Expressing disappointment over the performance of the accountability bodies in the country, he claimed that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had spent more money than it had recovered from the corrupt people.

Earlier, addressing the women participants of the congregation, the JI chief said that societies and countries where women were not given due respect vanished from the face of the Earth.

He contended that the West had snatched rights and freedom from the womenfolk and pushed them out of houses to make them a showpiece. He said non-governmental organisations and the West shared the same agenda to promote obscenity in the Muslim societies.

Sirajul Haq noted that Islam had given true freedom to women, defined their rights and given them respect. “The Sa’ee performed in the Masjid al-Haram in Makkah when the pilgrims travel back and forth seven times during Haj and Umrah between the Al-Safa and Al-Marwah hills is held in commemoration of the wife of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS),” he pointed out.

He opined that women are not given such respect in any other religion and civilisation. Women played an important role in the independence of Pakistan, he said, adding that women were playing a crucial role in the right to self-determination movement of the people of the Indian held Jammu and Kashmir and also Palestine.

He said women were suppressed in Pakistan and there was nobody to raise voice for them. “The women are not even given their share in inheritance and are being denied the right to education, health and employment,” he lamented.

Earlier, JI deputy chief Professor Muhammad Ibrahim presided over the first session of the big congregation. The party’s provincial chief, Mushtaq Ahmad, presided over the second session and the JI head Senator Sirajul Haq the third.

Hundreds of thousands of male and female workers of the JI and the party’s minority wing members flocked Azakhel to attend the gathering. The workers of other religious and political parties invited by the organisers and lawmakers also attended the event.

The JI also demanded immediate merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The demand was made through a resolution passed on the first day of the JI congregation, being held at Azakhel in Nowshera district.