Nation’s plight not result of resources’ scarcity: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Siraj-ul-Haq has said the nation’s plight is not a result of resources’ scarcity, but shortfall of ability, capability and vision of the rulers.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has always hoodwinked 220 million people by taking U-turns on all of his promises and commitments, he said while addressing the final session of two-day training workshop of JI Lahore at Mansoora on Sunday.

Siraj-ul-Haq said the brave and self-respecting Afghans had inflicted a historic humiliating defeat on the army of 48 countries led by the United States. He said the friendly match between the opposition and government was the worst disloyalty with the people as both were pursuing their personal agenda and sacrificed the people for that. He alleged that the PTI chained the poor people in huge inflation, unemployment and made them suffer from worst load-shedding.

Siraj said that if accountability was held on merit the top officials of the present and previous governments would be behind the bars. He alleged that political engineering was being done in the name of accountability, adding that only Jamaat-e-Islami could do real accountability because it had been corruption-free.

He said the PML-N, PPP and PTI had no revolutionary agenda, but all the three were a combination of the status quo of the imperialist system. He said the passage of the Domestic Violence Bill 2021 was bound to destroy the family system and relations in Pakistan by provoking women and children to rebel against elders for living a wayward life. He warned that the West wanted the family unity of the Muslim community to shatter like it happened there decades ago.

Siraj-ul-Haq said the Jamaat-e-Islami had been countering the agenda of colonial powers and their agents in the past and would do that in future too. He said that inflation and unemployment had made the lives of people miserable.

Prime Minister Imran Khan, he alleged, had fooled the 22 crore people of the country with his U-turns. Increase in petrol price twice a month as well as further increase in electricity and food prices are the way of ruling of the tyrant rulers, he said.