Daily Times

NOWSHERA: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said on Sunday that the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif had no moral ground to talk of the weaknesses of the judicial system because he had failed to improve the system during his three terms in office.

Addressing a public gathering at Nowshera on Sunday, Sirajul Haq said that the former prime minister was complaining that the courts were not dispensing justice. He said that the same judicial system had prevailed when Nawaz Sharif had been the chief executive of the country thrice, but he had never bothered to reform the system. “Now when the courts have given a verdict against Nawaz Sharif, he has suddenly come to know that the courts are not working properly,” he said. The JI chief said that present political system had failed to provide any relief to the masses. It had been proved that instead of curbing crime and corruption, the system was facilitating the cheats and plunderers in coming to power, he added.

He said that the people who were responsible for all the present ills were again in the run and begging for votes to return to power so that they could continue sucking the blood of the people.

Haq said that horse trading for Senate elections was at its peak and every effort was being made to secure Senate seats through wealth instead of talent and capability. He said that the parties which had only four assembly members had fielded two Senate candidates and persons having no political background were also keen to return to the upper house. He said that the corruption mafia, criminals and the sugar mafia on returning to the Senate, would only be pursuing personal goals.

The JI chief said if those who had been in power for three times, any concern for the common man, they would have done something for the uplift of the masses. Therefore, he said, it was of no use now to shed crocodile tears.

Published in Daily Times, February 19^th 2018.