JI asks Imran to review decision

TIMERGARA: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch on Tuesday asked the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan to review the decision of enforcement of Essential Service Maintenance Act in hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“The PTI decision to enforce essential service act will weaken the party’s stance on PIA’s privatisation issue,” the JI leader said while speaking at the ‘Nifaz-i-Islam Conference’ here. The moot was organised by the Jamiat Talaba Arabia (JTA), Lower Dir chapter, here.  

JTA chief organiser Maulana Ubaidur Rahman Abbasi, JI vice-chief KP Maulana Assadullah, provincial organiser Fazal Hadi Syed and others also spoke on the occasion.

Criticising the imposition of tax in Malakand division, Liaqat Baloch said Malakand division had been in a critical condition for the last seven years due to floods, earthquake and terrorism.

“The government imposed taxes on the shocked people instead of facilitating them,” he added The JI leader said that his party rejected the imposition of taxes in Malakand division and threatened to launch a movement if the government did not withdraw the decision.

Rejecting the KP government’s decision of arranging dance and music programmes in state-run schools, Liaqat Baloch said JI won’t allow such secular steps to be introduced in the educational institutions.

He demanded the government to unveil the hands behind the attacks on universities, seminaries and other public places. Baloch also called upon the government to link the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project with the under-developed areas of the country.