LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has not fulfilled any of its election promises during the last three years, and the only performance of its ministers/advisers was to augment their bank balances and properties.
Talking to the media at Mansoora after the opening session of the JI’s central shoora, Siraj said that the rulers had made the country an open market for India, due to which the balance of trade between the two countries had been disturbed.
He said that the country’s industry and agriculture were on the brink of ruin.
He said that the federal finance minister was a ‘loan specialist’ and had burdened the country under the Himalayas of loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
The JI chief said that if the judiciary disappointed the nation on the issue of corruption, the masses would hold courts on roads and crossings where the hands of the oppressed masses would be on the throat of the plunderers.
He said it seemed that the courts wanted someone else to bear the burden of cleansing corruption. He said the outgoing chief justice of the Supreme Court had passed the Panama leaks case onto the incoming chief justice, adding that it would have been a matter of pride for him to have decided it himself.
He said the JI had approached the judiciary because it believed that the courts could play the most effective role to wipe out corruption.
Condemning the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) provision of plea bargain, Sirajul Haq said the institution was giving full opportunity to the plunderers to amass wealth and then to turn to it (NAB) for redemption.
He said that the JI, after coming into power, would extract all ill-gotten money from the plunderers and wipe out the corrupt elite giving protection to each other.
To a question about Pervez Musharraf, the JI chief said that the former military dictator was a liar and a controversial figure, and his statements were not reliable.
He said that there was no room for Musharraf in the country’s politics. He said that if the retired general had some courage, he should return and face the cases against him.
To a question about Zardari’s return, he said that Asif Ali Zardari was a former president of the country, and his homecoming was nothing extraordinary. However, he said that the masses were no more interested in feudal politics.