Govt, opposition urged not to politicise CPEC

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch has urged the government and the opposition not to make the CPEC controversial by making it a political issue or treating it as a T-20 match.

The prime minister should go ahead on this epoch making project in accordance with the consensus arrived at with the national leadership.Addressing party workers on Monday, he said CPEC spread over 20 to 25 years but the unnecessary haste and hollow claims of the government with its eyes on 2018 elections were providing the opposition an opportunity to differ.

He suggested the government not to confine its politics to CPEC.Baloch urged the government to resolve the issue of Afghan woman Sharbat Gulah on humanitarian grounds. He said JI’s campaign agaist corruption had yielded positive results and the masses had risen against the corrupt mafia. He said the nation had high expectations of the superior judiciary and it was hoped that the Supreme Court would lay down an effective road map for investigation into the Panama Leaks and accountability of the corrupt. He said the JI conventions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Punjab had been highly successful and had infused a new enthusiasm among the workers.