JI to mobilise youths for Islamic movement, says Siraj

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq has said that it was high time to rise against the government which had failed to fulfill its election promises during the last three years and was also violating the country’s Constitution.Talking to the media at Mansoora after the concluding session of the JI Shoora, the JI Ameer announced the decisions taken by the Shoora and disclosed that decisions had been taken to mobilise one million youths in the country during the year 2016, for joining the Islamic movement.

He said that equal attention would be paid to the male and the female youth. A countrywide “Jeevay Pakistan caravan” would be arranged from Karachi to Peshawar, in August next under the JI youth wing. JI Women wings would be organised at tehsil and district level. Centres would be set up in big cities for counselling of women and girls. Awareness would be created among them for promotion of virtue and checking evil. They would be informed about the harmful effects of banking interest on society, morals and the economy in order to develop a public opinion against the evil. An election fund would be set up at different levels. The JI election setup at different levels would be reorganised on modern lines with separate minority wings at all levels. It was planned to impart Islamic education to both men and women through special programmes.

He said that the country was facing innumerable problems and the life of the masses had been made miserable. He said the election system had become a plaything in the hands of a few wealthy families and the masses had lost interest in elections.

He said the JI had decided to arouse among the masses a longing for Islamic and prosperous Pakistan in order to pull them out of the present state of despair. The JI Shoora, he said, had decided to launch a mass contact campaign during the month of March next with the theme of “Corruption-free Pakistan”. He said a few elite families were ruling the masses on the power of wealth. These very families and individuals were in power whether the country was ruled by the PPP, the PML, or it was martial law, and the common man could not even think of winning an election.

Sirajul Haq said the tax amnesty scheme was a clear attempt to oblige the corrupt elite similar to Musharraf’s NRO. He said the committee set up by the government for electoral reforms seemed to have been lost in files. The JI chief strongly condemned New Delhi’s bid to blame Pakistan for the Pathankot attack. He said that the interest system had ruined the country’s economy and a handful of families were controlling 65 percent of the country’s wealth. The rich were getting richer and the poor were becoming poorer. Hence, a strong movement would be launched against interest system.

Referring to the IDPs issue, Sirajul Haq said that the tribal people were suffering because of the sins of others which was a gross injustice. He said that thousands of men, women and children were living in camps in extreme cold. He said there was a need to give a new system to the tribal people.