Nisar’s words indicate entire govt has been disqualified: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said every word of Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan indicated that not only the prime minister but the entire government had been disqualified even ahead of Supreme Court decision in the Panama Leaks case.

Commenting on the interior minister’s press conference on Thursday, the JI chief said the entire federal cabinet, all ministries and departments had virtually been frozen, which had caused irreparable harm to the state. However, he said, Ch Nisar should have advised the prime minister to step down immediately after the Panama Leaks, on the call of his conscience. 

Earlier, talking to the JI office-bearers from Azad Kashmir and Sheikhupura at Mansoora, Sirajul Haq said Pakistan’s politics had fallen in the hands of different mafias and it was time to free it from their hold. He said the land mafia, drug mafia and sugar mafia were controlling the country’s politics as the mafias had taken shelter in political leaderships. Sirajul Haq said the ruling party was unnerved ahead of the Supreme Court’s decision and seemed heading towards disintegration. However, he said that the court decision would determine the future course of the country’s politics.

Sirajul Haq said hardened criminals had taken refuge in the country’s politics and political parties only to hide their crimes and to escape the law. He said militancy took birth from the “financial terrorism” which was the mother of lawlessness and chaos. He said the common man’s role in politics simply was to shout “Zindabad and Murdabad,” and offer sacrifices to facilitate the political leaders. He said the ruling elite had been making properties in London, Dubai and the US while the common man was deprived of basic necessities of life. He said the accountability of the elite was the crying need of the hour.

The JI chief said the Kashmir liberation movement would not be rolled back on any order of Modi or Trump. He said Kashmiris were fighting for their right of self-determination guaranteed by the UN Charter, so their struggle could not be termed terrorism. He said  the entire Pakistani nation and the JI firmly stood by them. He stressed upon Pakistan government to counter India’s baseless propaganda against Kashmiris.