Everyone must be held accountable for their actions: Siraj

QUETTA: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq on Sunday said that everyone should be held accountable for their actions as corruption and the state cannot go parallel.

Addressing a public gathering here, he said ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would have never spoken against the judiciary if the verdict had come in his favour. “We reject all forms of dialogue with the ruling party which aimed to protect corruption in the country,” he remarked.

JI chief said his party would further intensify its anti-corruption campaign against those who have been involved in wrongdoings by making wealth through illegal and inappropriate means. “The Article 62 and 63 of the Constitution should be applied to all [influential people] as a common person cannot asses the actual source of their wealth,” he added. 

Coming down hard on ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, he said the JI opposes removal of Articles 62 and 63 from the Constitution and would deter every endeavour to expunge the respective articles. “Those who do not comply with these articles [for not being truthful and honest] should voluntarily give up the public offices,” he asserted.

Enumerating the number of civic issues, including power outages and poor infrastructure, he further said that he will announce his future plan of action on August 21 with regard to anti-corruption campaign. —NNI

INP adds:  JI chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that Nawaz Sharif and his sons had set the worst example of arrogance by refusing to appear before NAB courts. Addressing a large public meeting at Quetta on Sunday, he said that a law that was not applicable to the rich could not be enforced on the poor as well. We revolt against the system that does not allow the masses to ask their rulers about their sources of earnings, he declared and added, he would give the future line of action in connection with the JI’s corruption free Pakistan campaign in Islamabad on August 21.

Sirajul Haq said thatissuing threats to the courts in GT Road rallies and talking of winding up the constitution was not democracy. He said the attitude of the ousted Premier would have been totally different if the court had decided in his favour.

The JI provincial chief Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi, Akhundzada Abdul Mateen, Maulana Abdul Kabeer and Jamil Ahmed Mashwani were also present on the occasion.

Sirajul Haq said that a handful of families had taken the country’s politics hostage and the international establishment was at the back of these families. These families believed they had every right over the property and the honour of the poor, and if someone asked them about their assets and factories and mills they became furious.