JI to protect women’s Islamic status: Siraj

LAHORE
JAMAAT-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq has said that Islam has given respect and honour to the womenfolk and those who are making them a market commodity are their enemies and not well-wishers.
Addressing Khadijatul Kubra Women Conference at Mansoora in connection with International Women Day, Sirajul Haq said women rights were simply in papers and nowhere in the practical world. He said the JI would protect the high status of women given by Islam. He said that for the protection of women rights, all the candidates for the assemblies should be directed to submit certificates of having given the rights of their sisters, daughters and wives.
The JI chief said a tyrannical, exploitative and class-based system prevailed in the country and poor people were committing suicides en masse. He said that France and Britain were providing old age allowance to its senior citizens, and why couldn’t this allowance be given in Pakistan. He said the reason was that the rulers in the country had taken over all the resources of the country.
He said JI on coming to power, would establish separate colleges and universities and health institutions for women and education would be made compulsory and the JI would ensure 100 percent female literacy. He said that in Held Kashmir, Hindus were disgracing Muslim women and had martyred thousands of Kashmiri youth whereas the Pakistani rulers were keen in trade and cultural relations with India instead of lodging protest against the excesses of Indian troops. He said the JI had declared war on status quo and it won’t allow the tyrannical system run by the US agents to continue. He said the common man did not get a tablet from the government hospitals whereas the assembly members travelled abroad frequently on state expense. The rulers had plundered billions from the public money and deposited in foreign banks. He said the JI would recover all this ill-gotten wealth.
Meanwhile, Opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed said Sardar Ayaz Sadiq had become Speaker of National Assembly through fake votes and government must not hesitate from setting up a judicial commission if it believed that its victory in last general election was genuine. Talking to different delegations at his chamber Sunday, he predicted an early ouster of Nawaz regime.