Siraj for ruthless, across-the-board accountability

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said a ruthless accountability of corrupt elements in every sphere of life is the unanimous demand of the nation and need of the hour to steer the country out of crises.

The JI ameer said that accountability process should be clear and transparent so that neither any finger could be pointed at it nor those going through it had a ground of making negative propaganda against it, he said while delivering Friday sermon at Mansoora masjid.

Sirajul Haq said the JI had been fighting against corruption since 1996 when late Qazi Husain Ahmed started a movement against the evil and scores of JI workers were tortured and two of them embraced martyrdom. He said the JI campaign was not against any individual. Instead, it was against the loot and plunder going on in the country for the last many decades which had caused all the social and economic problems in the country.

He said that the JI had been demanding the Supreme Court to devise a mechanism under which no one, however powerful, could escape accountability. He said all rulers had plundered public money and transferred the same to banks abroad and there was none to question them. He said that poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and crimes of all nature were the outcome of this loot and plunder.

Sirajul Haq said a government was like a mother that provides shelter and all basic needs to the citizens. However, he said the rulers in the country were giving a step-motherly treatment to the people as they had been devouring all national resources by themselves and building their bank balances while the masses were unable to make both ends meet. He said, if the masses wanted to get rid of these problems, they should seek forgiveness from Allah and elect honest and God-fearing leadership in the next elections.