PM projects himself as a victim after just one JIT appearance: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said after appearing just once before the JIT on corruption allegations, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wanted to project himself as “victimised’, but his wishes would not come true and accountability would continue till all the plundered public wealth was retrieved from foreign banks.  

“Nawaz Sharif wants to be taken as Mazloom Sharif for being forced to appear before the JIT but it can’t happen,” he remarked at a press conference at Mansoora on the second day of a three-day JI Shoora ameeting. Asif Luqman Qazi and JI Information Secretary Amirul Azeem were also present.

Sirajul Haq announced a “march to the US embassy” in Islamabad on July 9 to express  solidarity with Kashmiris and to protest against  the US  announcement declaring veteran Kashmiri freedom fighter Syed Salahud Din a terrorist. He urged the masses to join the march in large numbers in support of the just cause of Kashmiris.

He said accountability would continue until the plundered wealth was recovered, adding that nobody was above the law and around 600 people named in the Panama leaks would be brought to accountability. He urged all political parties to offer themselves for accountability to help wipe out corruption and to promote the culture of honesty in the country.

The JI chief said the US, India and Israel wanted to occupy the land and resources of the Muslim world, urging that the unity of Ummah was necessary to foil their designs. He also urged the Muslim world to move forward for arbitration between Saudi Arabia and Iran to frustrate the US agenda of dividing the Muslim world on the basis of Shia and Sunni. Sirajul Haq said declaring Salahud Din a terrorist was a personal decision of Donald Trump and the American people and the UN had nothing to do with it. It was an irony that the US which had declared Modi a terrorist till recently was now accusing Syed Salahud Din of terrorism though he was struggling for the liberation of his people. He said India wanted to divert the rivers flowing into Pakistan to convert the country into a desert.

Replying to a question, the JI chief said he did not believe in any conspiracy. “If the prime minister and his family members think there is conspiracy against them, they should openly tell the nation who is conspiring against them,” he added. He said the courts in the country were free and whatsoever their decision, it would be in the larger interest of the country and the nation and it would help weed out corruption. Sirajul Haq pointed out that all political parties had accepted the JIT and the PML-N even distributed sweets. “Therefore, propaganda against it is not right and its decision would be accepted by all,” he added.