Daily Times

LOWER DIR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq has said that whenever the rulers were under pressure, they tried to hide themselves behind any self-made commission but none of the commissions in the past had disclosed the truth to the nation.

Talking to different delegations at Lower Dir on Saturday, he said that the fall of Dhaka was the biggest tragedy in the country’s history but neither those responsible for that were traced nor were the secrets concerning it disclosed while the JI leaders in Bangladesh, who were being executed due to their love for the country.

The JI chief said that politicians and bureaucrats named in the Panama leaks were quitting their offices under public pressure but the situation was different in Pakistan. “Some people had plundered billions of public money and transferred illegal wealth abroad.” However, he said, on public pressure and protest, enquiry commissions were set up which neither disclosed the names of the criminals nor was the plundered wealth recovered.

He said that some people were indirectly pleading the case of the prime minister, and were arguing that the premier had committed no wrong. He said these people should keep in mind that Iceland’s prime minister had resigned on similar grounds. The prime minister, he said, during his visits abroad, frequently invited foreigners to invest in Pakistan. “When the prime minister and his sons were doing business in other countries, who would invest in this country,” he questioned.

He said the PML-N government had introduced several amnesty schemes to bring traders and businessmen in the tax net but all these had failed. The rulers should think that if they were evading taxes, how could the others be motivated to pay taxes.