JI kicks off anti-govt drive

Sirajul Haq says incumbent govt has destroyed economy, made institutions controversial

BAJAUR:

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Sunday launched a countrywide protest movement against government policies from Bajaur, issuing warning to the rulers to provide relief to the people or get ready to go home.

Thousands of people, holding JI flags and banners inscribed with slogans against the rulers, participated in the rally.

“The PTI government has committed every blunder from destroying economy to making controversial the key institutions in two years. The present rulers have proved themselves most incapable in the history of the country,” Haq said while addressing the rally.

It has become essential to hold a march towards Islamabad to send these rulers packing, he said, telling the government that if the JI held a sit-in in federal government, it would not return without getting rid of the current regime.

“If the Imran Khan government wants to prolong its tenure for another two three months, it will have to control inflation.”

The JI chief maintained that the people could not sit silent over the rising inflation and increasing unemployment and that they got no option now but to come to the streets.

“People are ready to hold the rulers by the neck. The government is left with the only option to address the public issues.”

Haq came down hard on the government for failing to stop the recent terrorist attack in Peshawar, saying the bomb blast in a mosque had exposed the rulers’ incapability to thwart the nefarious designs of enemies.

No one from the government, he said, had bothered to visit the families of the innocent victims of the Peshawar bomb blast.

He called for a boycott of the French products and urged the authorities concerned to sever diplomatic and trade relations with Paris.

He said Pakistan was established to be the citadel of Islam hence it was the duty of Islamabad to send a clear message to those who had attacked the religion.

The senator warned the government and secular lobbies against “hatching conspiracies” to damage the ideology of the country, saying the evil designs would be responded to with full force.

He also expressed concern over the prime minister’s overwhelming commendation to the Chinese government system and said that “after deceiving the masses in the name of Madina-like-state for two years, Imran Khan had now started idealising the Chinese model”.

“Let me make clear one thing to you [rulers] that Pakistan’s destiny is the Islamic system. If Imran Khan likes China, England or US, he must go there to live his life.”

 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 2^nd, 2020.