Pakistan Today (Lahore)

JI demands govt to disclose amount of foreign loans it received

- PPI

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq has called upon the government to explain to the masses how much loan it had obtained so far and where the amount had been spent.

He expressed these views while talking to reporters after inspecting the arrangemen­ts for the provincial event of the party at Wahdat Road ground which will be held from October 28 to 30.

Sirajul Haq said that drug and sugar mafias and smugglers had taken refuge in political parties and the so-called political parties were playing in the hands of these criminals simply to remain in power.

He claimed the JI to be a ‘truly democratic and progressiv­e’ party and said the JI would go to any extent to free the nation from the clutches of the plunderers. He appealed to the masses to free themselves from the hold of the serpents that had wasted several precious years of the nation and were pushing the country backward instead of going forward.

Condemning the recent tragedy in Quetta, the JI chief said that the whole nation was grieved over the recurring tragedies which proved that the rulers could not protect the life and property of the people. He said the masses were having sleepless nights whereas billions were being spent on the security of the rulers and their kith and kin. The JI wanted to give the nation such rulers in whose presence the people could heave a sigh of relief, he added.

Sirajul Haq said that those ruling the country belonged to the families who had been granted properties by the British for their loyalty to the colonial rulers. These people had only been plundering public money and building their bank accounts, he said.

He said the JI wanted supremacy of the constituti­on and rule of law, and added that the county is not secure in the presence of the rulers. He demanded cutting down the assemblies’ term to four years as is the norm in the US, Britain and France, so that a government which failed to deliver could be sent home earlier.

Sirajul Haq said the eyes of the entire nation were now on the Supreme Court and it was awaiting an independen­t and impartial judicial commission which could bring all the plunderers to accountabi­lity, duly punish them and recover all looted money from them. He appealed to the apex court to hold day to day hearing of the Panama Leaks case. JI Punjab chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed told newsmen that the rally of the JI Punjab would not only defend the ideologica­l borders of the country but also give the future line of action for the nation.

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