Siraj says govt doing ‘one-wheeling’ on vital issues

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has criticised the government for its “dictatorial” attitude on vital national issues, saying rulers had completely ignored to take the opposition into confidence.A government which tried to push the opposition to the wall would itself be buried under the wall in the long run, he said while delivering Friday sermon at Mansoora masjid. He said the government was trying to bury the news leak issue and had not considered it necessary to take the parliament into confidence. However, he said, this strategy would not work anymore.

He said the Muslim world would have to forge complete unity in its ranks and promote confidence in order to protect its interests, liberate its areas and for the solution of its problems. He said the JI wanted such democracy in the country wherein there was no distinction between the master and slave and every citizen could enjoy equal rights. He said the JI was striving for an Islamic and welfare state in which the rights of the oppressed were secured. 

Sirajul Haq said mental slaves of the US were shedding tears on the defeat of Hilary Clinton and the victory of Donald Trump. He said these people should realise that US policy of grabbing Muslim world’s resources and thrusting a war on them was not something new and its policies did not change with the change of president. The change of US president had never brought a change to US policy towards Muslims as the US always watched its own interests.

Meanwhile, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, while addressing elected representatives of the local government institutions, said it was a big failure of the Punjab government that the local government institutions had not been made functional in the province despite three years.He said depriving the elected representatives of their rights was an undemocratic and dictatorial attitude, adding that the government was promoting corruption and denying the masses basic civic facilities. He called for revising local governments and giving them powers under the law so that public problems related to education, health, drinking water, drainage and even jobs could be solved.