Rooting out corruption should be polls agenda of all parties: Siraj

OSLO: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the situation in the country warranted that all the political parties should contest the 2018 elections on one point agenda of elimination of corruption. He was speaking at a reception hosted in his honour at the Islamic Cultural Centre here Monday.

Sirajul Haq said that the plunderers of public money should not be allowed to flee the country till they returned every penny of the looted money. He said that at least the financial matters of the period of Musharraf, Zardari and Nawaz Sharif be audited. He said that allowing the corrupt leaders to go abroad without completing the accountability process would be a joke with the nation.

The JI chief said that a fresh NRO would not be accepted and every conspiracy against the nation would be fully resisted. He further said that Nizam-e-Mustafa was solution of all the problems facing the country and the nation. He said that MMA would contest the 2108 elections on this national agenda.

Describing corruption as the root cause of all social, economic and political problems Sirajul Haq said that unless and until this cancer was removed crises would continue to crop up in the country one after the other. He said that terrorism, lawlessness, poverty and illiteracy had been born out of corruption. He said the people who were duty bound to safeguard public money proved to be dishonest as they ignored the public good and pursued their personal goals all the time. The JI chief said that if loot and plunder was controlled the country could be put on the path of progress within a year.