Daily Times

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Saturday said the Prime Minister should resign for an independent and transparent investigation into Panamagate case.

Talking to reporters after addressing the JI office-bearers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at Mansoora, he said if Nawaz Sharif did not step down, he could influence the institutions.

Siraj said that God had provided an opportunity to Nawaz to record his name in the history but “the tragedy with our rulers was that they would never quit unless the masses came on roads and streets against them”.

He demanded that the JIT proceedings be held in the open so that the nation could watch. He said that closed door investigations would give rise to doubts.

Siraj said people should rise and hold accountability of the corrupt through their vote and demolish the idols of conceit and pride.

He reiterated that an operation was necessary against the financial terrorists sitting in the corridors of power. He said these people had burdened each and every Pakistani with huge debt because of the IMF and World Bank loans.

He said the JI would go to any extent to recover the ill-gotten money from the corrupt rulers and their henchmen.

Siraj termed the attack at Chaman border a blunder of the Kabul regime and said the sooner Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered an apology for that the better it would be. He said Afghanistan and Pakistan required each other’s support and they must make joint efforts for peace and progress.

He said that the Chaman attack also proved the failure of the Foreign Ministry. It was surprising that the PM could not find a suitable person as foreign minister. It seemed the PM did not trust anybody except himself, he added.

Siraj said that fresh elections sans electoral reforms would be a joke as the coterie of the corrupt always managed to reach the assemblies. He said at every election, the people hoped for change of faces but they were disappointed as bigger thieves managed to return to the assemblies.

He said he was striving to shake the status quo so that instead of the feudal lords, capitalists, the farmers and workers could return to the assemblies.