Siraj declares Accountability March on Sept 12

ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Sirajul Haq has announced an Accountability March from Lahore to Islamabad on Sept 12 to underline the need for across-the-board accountability involving all segments of society.

Addressing a press conference in the federal capital on Monday, he said the “40 thieves” had ganged up to continue their loot and plunder and the “Ali Baba” must wake up to check the loot.

He said a consultative meeting of the lawyers would be held on Aug 23 in Lahore to consider filing an appeal before the Supreme Court for the trial of all those named in the Panama leaks. On the occasion, Senator Sirajul Haq also called for making public the reports of the Dawn leaks, volume 10 of the JIT against the Sharif family and Model Town killings inquiry.

The JI chief said that instead of accepting the court verdict, Nawaz started a campaign at the GT Road and decided not to appear before the NAB courts. He, however, said that if the courts were soft on the elite and hard on the poor, there could be a civil war in the country.

Sirajul Haq said the PML-N was terming articles 62 and 63 of the constitution encroachments and Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was consulting different political parties for their abolition. He said the members of the parliament were expected to be Sadiq and Ameen as they were the custodian of the public property. He said that any attempt to abolish these articles would be resisted with full force.

He said the non-appearance of Nawaz Sharif and his family before NAB courts proved that the allegations against them were true. He said the ousted prime minister could not escape from accountability even by leaving the country. Sirajul Haq reiterated that the NAB chairman should be appointed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court in consultation with the chief justices of the provinces.