Siraj urges masses to support judiciary

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq said judiciary must perform its duties in accordance with the oath of their office and should not be cowed down or care for those working for their vested interests.

The year 2018 pose a test for the nation for changing the practice of electing those rulers who had been pursuing their personal goals at the cost of national objectives for the last 70 years, he said while speaking at a reference in Mansoora Tuesday in memory of JI’s veteran leader Safdar Ali Chaudhry, who served the party for five decades as information secretary and director public relations.

He said if the nation once again voted for ‘corruption mafia’ and plunderers it won’t be able to get rid of the problems of lawlessness, poverty, ignorance and unemployment. He urged the people to stand behind judiciary in the prevailing situation.

Paying homage to late Safdar Ali Chaudhry, senator Sirajul Haq said he was not the name of an individual, he was a missionary and had worked for an Islamic revolution throughout his life, and would live forever as a stalwart of Pakistan’s ideology. Those who paid tribute to the deceased included JI senior leaders Ch Muhammad Aslam Saleemi, Hafiz Idrees, Liaqat Baloch, besides columnist Dr Husain Ahmed Piracha and senor journalist Rauf Tahir.

The JI chief said in the upcoming Senate elections, the bidding of the assembly members was going on openly and the Election Commission was acting like a silent spectator. He said if feudal lords and capitalists won the Senate seats with the power of their wealth; the entire electoral system would be doomed. He said in the past, there were ‘Pajero groups’ but now the ‘helicopter and aeroplane mafias’ had emerged. He said if no attempt was made to control this phenomenon, the masses would lose confidence in the election system.