PTI has broken all records of corruption: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said reports of international institutions on corruption and state of democracy in Pakistan have exposed the governance of PTI regime which has broken all records of corruption in the country.

“PTI rulers say they are not answerable to people since they represent the ‘boots power’ which is on their back instead of the masses,” he said while addressing Ulema Convention at Mansoora on Thursday and later replying to journalists’ queries.

He said JI would set up public courts all over the country against the corruption and price hike, adding that the reports of world institutions on PTI government’s corruption must sever as eye opener for Prime Minister Imran Khan who had been making tall claims of ruthless and across the board accountability drive during his election campaign and introduce reforms in governance.

He demanded the Supreme Court take action against those who created wheat and flour shortage in the country and made billions of rupees in the crisis by first exporting the wheat and then importing it. He said the masses were starving and unable to meet their both ends in the prevailing circumstances.

He announced the JI would hold countrywide rallies and protest demonstration against inflation on Friday (today).

Quoting Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which ranked Pakistan at 120 out of total 180 countries, he said how the objective of “Clean Pakistan” could be achieved when the government ministers were involved in wrongdoings and they were openly blaming each other of making money throw corruption.

He said corruption was there during previous regimes but PTI had broken all records as bribes were being taken even for just and due operations in the government machinery. Siraj said the decline of country’s position in democracy index reflected the PTI inability to run the government on democratic principles. He said the fragile democracy, corruption, inflation and unemployment have become the trademarks of this regime, adding the overall situation turned the masses desperate and hopeless and they wanted to get rid of these rulers at any cost.

Taking about the Kashmir situation, he said eight millions people have become virtually prisoners to the Indian forces but the Pakistani government failed to take bold steps in their support.

He said the prime minister rhetoric at international forum that there were least chances of war between India and Pakistan was tantamount to displaying weakness before the enemy who bent upon ethnic cleansing of Muslims and changing the demography of held Kashmir. He said the entire nation will show the solidarity with the people of Kashmir on February 5. He said Trump was again deceiving Pakistan by offering mediation on Kashmir at a time when mediation had become meaningless, which showed he was clearly allowing time to India to strengthen its unjust control on the held Kashmir.

The joint communiqué of the convention warned the government against making any changes in the constitution and relevant laws regarding finality of the Prophethood and blasphemy on the pressure of western governments, asserting that it would be resisted with full might. It demanded the government that instead of befooling the masses in the name of Madina like state, the PTI government must take practical measures for making the country Madina like state in consultation of Ulema and Islamic scholars, and enforce the Islamic laws with sincerity. It demanded that the syllabi of contemporary education should be changed in line with the teachings of Quran and Sunnah. It said the growing vulgarity and obscenity on media and institutions must be stopped.

Religious leaders including Maulana Abdul Malik, Allama Raghib Naeemi, Hafiz Fazlur Raheem Ashrafi, Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer, Maulana Javed Kasuri and other noted Ulema addressed the convention.