Siraj backs south Punjab province

MULTAN: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Saturday said his party was struggling against corrupt rulers, feudal elite and sugar mafia as poverty, price hike, unemployment and loadshedding were the result of corrupt rule.

Siraj said if the people believed that creation of a separate province would resolve their problems, south Punjab should be made a separate province.

Addressing a reception hosted by Shujabad Tehsil Bar Association, Siraj said he had been visiting southern Punjab since his student life but he felt no change in the people’s lives.

He said southern Punjab is experiencing a sense of deprivation as the rulers, he alleged, kept the region undeveloped and deprived it from basic amenities.

“The development of southern Punjab means development of Pakistan,” he remarked and added that the rulers were continuously avoiding resolving the real issues of southern Punjab.

Siraj said the world was progressing and discovering space but the women in Pakistan were still engaged in wheat harvesting. The present situation was a result of unwise distribution of resources, he added.

Both PML-N and PPP ruled Punjab but kept the region deprived of basic facilities, he alleged.

According to a Pildat survey, the JI was the only democratic political party in the country, he added.

The rulers, not the US, were responsible for the decline in Pakistan, he said, adding, “The present system of government only supports wealthy people.”