JI chief for allotting 50pc tickets to youth in next polls

BATTAGRAM: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq said on Saturday that his party would allot fifty percent party tickets to youth in the next general elections.

Speaking at a public meeting here, he said that youth were asset to the nation and they would ultimately have to serve the nation and the country in future. The JI chief, who is also a senator, said that the people would hold Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif accountable for his corruption if the courts cleared him of charges.

“The reputation of the country is at stake in the comity of nations after the prime minister was named in the Panama Leaks case. Nawaz Sharif is not a common man but the prime minister of Pakistan and he should resign after the verdict of the Supreme Court bench in the Panama Papers case,” he added.

Senator Sirajul Haq also criticised co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former president Asif Ali Zardari, saying he (Zardari) was considered among one of the most ‘corrupt people’ in world. “How can he talks about eliminating corruption,” he wondered.

He said that the successive rulers plundered the national wealth and shifted their capital abroad. “The corrupt elite are living a luxury life while the common people are being forced to live a miserable life,” he added.

The days of the corrupt rulers are numbered, he said, adding the people were matured and can differentiate between right and wrong.