Don’t create controversy over Rangers powers issue: Siraj

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has warned the federal and Sindh governments against raising controversy over the rangers’ powers. The position of Sindh government was becoming weak by prescribing conditions for rangers’ powers, he said while talking to the media at the 33rd foundation day of Mansoora hospital on Wednesday. 

He pointed out that all political parties had given a mandate to the government to eliminate terrorism but the government had failed to achieve the goal. He said the rangers had been called after the police and civilian authorities were unable to control crime in Karachi. The rangers had restored peace in the port city within one year but now obstacles were being created in its way. 

Sirajul Haq said armed terrorism was the outcome of financial terrorism. He said the government should explain what steps it had adopted during the last one year to wipe out political, social, and economic terrorism. He said a government which could not provide basic facilities of health and education to the masses, had no right to rule.

He said Supreme Court had observed that 98 per cent of the deaths in the country were due to diseases and as many as 38 children had died at the Children Hospital during the last couple of days due to lack of injections and ventilators. At the same time, he said, an Orange Train was being started in the city at the huge sum of Rs 200 billion.

Sirajul Haq said the Cardiology Hospital at Wazirabad had not been completed during the last seven years and the Surgical Tower had not been completed at the Lahore Mayo Hospital for more than seven years, and the heart patients at the Lahore Punjab Cardiology Hospital Centre were being given ten to twelve months time for operations.

JI chief said on one hand, the patients at the Hospital emergency were asked to purchase medicines from the market while on the other hand millions were spent on the dental treatment of the ministers. He said Mansoora Hospital was started for treatment of Afghan Mujahideen, and was now providing valuable medical cover to a large pupation in the area. He added JI on coming into power would provide free treatment to patients suffering from five major diseases. 

Replying to questions, Siraj said people of Karachi had voted for MQM and denying the party the right to rule would be unconstitutional. Regarding the registration of different cases against MQM’s nominated Mayor for Karachi, he said crime and politics must be kept apart.