People of Balochistan can’t be deprived of rights: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq spent the World Labour Day on Monday with fishermen of Gwadar at fish harbour of the city, had a lunch with them and assured them they had full right to the resources of their province and warned that nobody from outside should be allowed to occupy Gwadar.

Balochistan JI ameer Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi and provincial JI Secretary Maulana Hidayat-ur-Rahman were present. Addressing a gathering of fishermen, Sirajul Haq stressed that people of Balochistan could never be denied their birth right over the land, mountains, sea and other natural resources of their province.

Nobody from outside would be allowed to occupy Gwadar, he warned, adding people of Balochistan were supporting CPEC but they would remain owning their land. He said people of Balochistan were patriotic and if there was hatred in their eyes and anger on their faces, it was because of their deprivations and the wrong policies of rulers and failure in fulfilling their promises to local people.

He said Balochistan was full of natural resources with mines of gold and copper and other precious metals. Hundreds of thousands of fishermen spread over the around one thousand km area from Gwadar to Pasni and Geevni were Pakistani citizens.

He said if hardworking Baloch youth had moved to mountains, the responsibility lay with Zardari and Nawaz Sharif. Sirajul Haq said JI was fighting for the rights of peasants, workers and oppressed people.

He said the elite sitting in palaces of Islamabad were a curse for general public as they were plundering public wealth and also denying the basic civic rights to the multitudes of people who had to put in hard labour to earn their living.

The rulers had not fulfilled the commitments Quaid e Azam made to the people of Balochistan, he added.He said rulers visited the areas as VVIPs during which local people were confined to their homes.

He said such policies gave birth to hatred, adding that government had no plans for the provision of education, basis health and drinking water and other civil facilities
 to the people in far flung areas where local people had no representation in assemblies.

Meanwhile, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch had his breakfast with industrial workers at Akbar Chowk to mark the May Day to demonstrate solidarity with the working people. Later, addressing a workers convention, he said country was currently having the worst form of bad governance, all state institutions had been destroyed and price spiral, lawlessness and unemployment were at peak. He said on one hand the public exchequer was being plundered mercilessly while on the other, rulers were begging for fresh loans at every forum bringing disgrace to the country. He urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to set up a strong bench to monitor the investigations of JIT in Panama leaks case.

JI group leader for NA-128 Amirul Azeem said there was no difference between the rulers from Larkana and Raiwind and both were responsible for pushing the country into decadence.