JI chief holds rulers responsible for rape, murders in country

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq held that the rulers ‘promoting’ nudity and obscenity in the country at the behest of west were responsible for rape and murder of minor girls like Zainab.

The country was confronted with serious challenges on all fronts but the rulers, instead of seeking pardon from Allah, were behaving as Pharaohs, he said while addressing the concluding session of JI central Shoora at Mansoora on Thursday.

He said the government’s policies were the root cause of all evils besides socio-economic problems such as poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. Sirajul Haq said there was a huge distance between the rulers and the ruled. The ruling elite considered themselves as of divine origin and the masses as insects. Had the rulers considered Zainab, Sharifan Bibi and Attya, as their own daughters, these poor girls would not have been molested.

He said rulers allegedly wanted to distance the nation from Quran and Sunnah at the behest of world colonialists. However, he said if the banner of Kalima goes above Islamabad, nobody would be able to stop an Islamic revolution from spreading in the east and the west. Sirajul Haq said JI would go to any extent to shake the status quo but its struggle was within the Constitution and the law. JI did not believe in use of force for enforcement of Deen but would bring about Islamic revolution through public opinion and through vote. He said country was not short of resources and corruption was the sole ailment that had to be controlled to improve the lot of the masses.

Earlier, JI central Shoora in a unanimous resolution, reiterated that any supra-constitutional dispensation would be a serious threat to the country’s existence and called for holding elections on schedule in a free, fair and impartial atmosphere. The Shoora noted with concern that the aggrieved parties were looking towards the armed forces and judiciary for justice and rumours of some extra-constitutional measures were ripe in the country.

Through another resolution, JI central consultative body made it clear to the US and India that in spite of internal differences, the Pakistani nation stood united against any foreign aggression and any Indian adventure would be effectively countered with the spirit ofJehad. Shoora said that the attitude of ruling junta practically not accepting the decisions of Supreme Court, ridiculing the courts, and promoting confrontation with the state institutions was highly detrimental to the vital national interests. It noted that despite completion of constitutional requirements for fresh delimitation of constituencies, Election Commission was not giving due attention to holding of elections on schedule and in a fair, free and transparent manner.

JI Shoora slated government’s stubbornness in delaying the publication of Raja Zafarul Haq Committees report on the Khatme Nubuwwat issue and punishing those hatching a conspiracy against the sentiments of the nation in this respect. It deplored that culprits involved in Model Town killings were still at large even after the publication of judicial enquiry report. Shoora noted that elements involved in Kasur children video scandal about two years ago had not been brought to justice due to political pressure and the brutes involved in the rape and murder of Zainab besides a dozen such other cases were still untraced. On the other hand, three of the protesters were shot dead by the police.

The Shoora noted with deep anguish that the incidents of molestation of minor girls and women were occurring in all parts of the country and the governments had failed to provide justice to the aggrieved. In Karachi, the police was killing innocent people at pickets and the general public felt insecure at the hands of the police. It condemned India’s interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs and its conspiracies and intelligence network like the one run by RAW spy Kalboshan. It called upon the government to taker strict notice of persistent cross border firing from India and Indian army chief’s threats to this country. It called upon the government to highlight India’s increasing crimes in Held Kashmir at the world level.

While appreciating the grant of basic rights to Fata people, Shoora commended the efforts of JI ameer in this regard, but expressed concerns over the undue delay by government in Fata’s merger with KPK despite government’s commitment in this regard. JI Shoora was worried over the deteriorating economic condition of the country with increasing financial deficit and the burden of additional foreign loans to the tune of forty billion dollars, besides the continuous fall in exports and the fall of the rupees value. It also deplored the exploitation of the sugarcane growers at the hands of sugar mills owners with the connivance of the rulers. It resolved to its drive for a corruption free Pakistan and to keep contact with the religious parties to ensure fair, free and transparent elections.