Uncertainty about polls harmful to unity, stability: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has warned that clouds of uncertainty about coming Senate elections and general elections were getting darker with every passing day, terming it the most harmful thing for national unity and stability of the country.

Pakistan’s alliance in US war on terror had only benefitted Washington while Islamabad had suffered incomprehensibly huge losses which were predicted by JI at the very beginning but rulers paid no heed, he said while addressing a meeting of party delegations at Mansoora on Monday.

Sirajul Haq said Pakistan continued to suffer losses of men and material while Washington had continued accusing Islamabad of harbouring terrorism despite suffering nearly hundred thousand casualties besides financial losses of over 130 billion dollars. He said 95 per cent of these people were killed in drone attacks. Siraj said the people who had supported the US war were now confused and unable to justify country’s blunder to join this war. He said US history was full of deceit and hypocrisy towards Pakistan and Washington had always treated its slaves in the same manner. He called for immediately suspending Nato supplies besides disallowing the use of aerial and land space of the country.

Sirajul Haq demanded a comprehensive probe into all those Americans entering country without visas and the accountability of those who allowed US saboteurs to enter the country illegally to carry out acts of sabotage and subversion. He said the Nato supplies had only resulted in vast destruction of Pakistan’s infrastructure, heavy financial losses besides pollution.

Sirajul Haq expressed dissatisfaction over the pace of accountability which, he said, was too slow. He said all those named in the Panama Leaks must be brought to book and their ill-gotten wealth recovered from them. He said that if the country’s wealth lying abroad as brought back, the country would not need to beg from the IMF and World Bank.