Daily Times

LAHORE: Jamaat e Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq that real accountability will never be possible if exceptions for establishment favorites are made.

Talking to the media after attending the Senate session on Thursday, he said that a One Window Operation was required against corruption but the government was bent upon adopting delaying tactics. He said that the entire country wished to see transparency and accountability.

The JI chief stressed that the parliamentary committee should end the deadlock on the ToRs and the government should agree to constitute an independent and autonomous commission for enquiry. He said that Government’s refusal to grant an autonomous status to the commission clearly implied that it was not serious for Ehtisab. He said some people wanted to brush corruption under the carpet, but the nation was determined to achieve it. Sirajul Haq said it was only because of corruption that the country was facing the problems of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and lawlessness.

Again, it was due to corruption that the country was buried under the huge loan of the IMF and the World Bank. If those plundering public money were not brought to accountability and thrown out from power, the nation could never be able to solve its multiple problems, he added.

Meanwhile, the JI Azad Kashmir chief Abdur Rashid Turabi called on the JIP chief in Islamabad and apprised him of New Delhi’s plan to change the Muslim majority in Kashmir into a minority. On the occasion, Sirajul Haq said that the tyranny and various tactics adopted by India for this purpose were clear violation of the spirit of the UN resolutions on Kashmir.

He impressed upon the Pakistan government to raise the issue effectively with the UN and other world bodies. He also reaffirmed JI’s total support to the Kashmiris in their struggle for liberation. He also stressed that the upcoming elections in Azad Kashmir should be free and transparent.