Rulers have failed to fulfil duties: Siraj

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq condemned the government for what he called adopting fascist techniques to halt the PTI sit-in in Islamabad and deny the masses their Constitutional right to protest, and urged the judiciary to take immediate notice of the state oppression and order the release of arrested political workers.  

Talking to reporters after inaugurating the new Gyneacology block at a Mansoora hospital on Friday, Sirajul Haq said rulers were repeating the politics of 90’s and were inviting civil war. The government was creating hatred for state institutions among the masses, he added.  He said arrests of political workers and torture of women was the worst form of terrorism. The rulers had failed to fulfill their Constitutional responsibilities, he said. 

He said health was the most neglected sector in the country and the plight of government hospitals was deplorable. He lamented that federal budget only had a meagre allocation of Rs22.4 billion which meant Rs111 per capita annually. On the other hand, he said, millions were spent from the public exchequer on the minor ailment of the rulers. He said serving the masses was not the priority of rulers, and instead, they were denying people their basic rights. He said had the rulers any trust in country’s doctors, they would not have gone abroad for treatment of minor health problems.

Earlier, delivering Friday sermon at Mansoora masjid, Sirajul Haq said during the last 70 years, the country had dictatorship for 35 years and the so-called democratic rule for other 35 years. He said the slaves of the West had imposed dictatorship in the name of democracy. The Constitution was pushed in the background and rulers framed the laws of their choice. There had never been the Islamic system in the country even for a single day.

The JI chief said those talking about change should know that a thief could not catch another thief. An honest leadership was needed for accountability and such a leadership was only with the JI and even its opponents admitted that fact. He said the JI wanted change through constitutional process and not through force.