No moral ground for ousted PM to talk of judicial system’s weaknesses: Siraj

NOWSHERA: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Senator Sirajul Haq has said ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has no moral ground to talk of weaknesses of the judicial system as he failed to improve the system during his three terms in office.

Addressing a public gathering at Nowshera on Sunday, he said the former prime minister was complaining that the courts were not dispensing justice. He said that the same judicial system had prevailed when Nawaz Sharif had been the chief executive of the country thrice, but he never bothered to reform the system.

Now when the courts have given a verdict against him (Nawaz), he has suddenly come to know that the courts are not working properly he remarked. The JI chief said that the incumbent political system failed to provide any relief to the masses. It had been proved that instead of curbing crime and corruption, the system was facilitating the cheats and plunderers in coming to power, he added.

He said that the people who were responsible for all ills were again in the run and begging for vote to return to power so that they could continue sucking the blood of the people.

Sirajul Haq said horse-trading for Senate elections was at its peak and every effort was being made to secure Senate seat on the power of wealth instead of talent and capability. He said that the parties which had only four assembly members had fielded two Senate candidates and persons having no political background were also keen to return to the upper house. He said the corruption mafia criminals and the sugar mafia on returning to the Senate would only be pursuing personal goals.

The JI chief said if those who had been in power for three times had no concerns about the common man they would have done something for the uplift of the masses. Therefore, he said it was of no use now to shed crocodile tears. He said the present PML-N government was burdening the masses with more taxes and raising POL prices.

Sirajul Haq said that if the country’s leadership was of this nature, the foreign policy would fail and President Trump would be issuing threats to the country. He said that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) was being revived and it would reform the country’s rotten system.