PanamaLeaks case: Siraj sees rulers in jail

ISLAMABAD: Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the Panama scandal will not prove an aerial firing and he was seeing the rulers in jail.

Talking to the media outside the Supreme Court on Monday, he said that accountability would strengthen democracy instead of weakening it and there would be transparency in the affairs of the state. “This is the age of democracy and the Parliament and the courts are independent. The time has gone when the people would attack the courts with stones and lathis”, he added.

He said that it had been proved that the government had been using state resources and power and was exerting pressure on the courts and the institutions in order to get the decision of its liking, but had failed.

He said there was talk of tampering and remarked that in fact, the whole system was tampered. He further said the government was using advertisements as a political bribe and said this should be stopped.

He said that all citizens were equal in the eye of law and if a few hundred people had to be sent to jail to secure the future of two hundred million people, it won’t make a difference. He said that if the court decided against the rulers, heavens would not fall.

Sirajul Haq said that the decisions were not taken on roads and streets. Decisions were made in the courts. He said the entire nation had confidence in the courts and the people who were hurling threats which was a sign of defeat. Those who were talking in high tone seemed to have lost arguments. He wished that the court decided the case at the earliest and there was not much delay. He further said that there were hundreds of other people in the Panama scandal and after the decision of the present case, the cases of others should also be taken up.