Judicial commission on threatening letter suggested

JI alleges violation of moral, democratic values

LAHORE:

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq has appealed to the Supreme Court to form a judicial commission to investigate the issue of a letter that the previous government had declared as threatening and interfering in the internal affairs of the country while the new government was denying its existence.

He said while addressing an Iftar in honour of local body representatives and election candidates in Dir Pain that continuous violation of moral and democratic values ​​was regrettable and the supremacy of the constitution and law had been mocked during the past month.

He alleged that political parties had fought a battle of interests and such polarisation was disastrous for the country.

He said the new rulers were once again being tested after the people gave the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) an opportunity but it was not able to deliver in three and a half years.

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Sirajul Haq said the Jamaat-e-Islami believed that US interference in the internal affairs of various countries, including Pakistan, was not a secret.

He said inflation and unemployment had made people's lives miserable and an economic crisis in the country had left millions of people unemployed.

He said that if the prime minister had received a letter from anywhere, he should have taken parliament and the nation into confidence in time.

"Our ruling elite is primarily responsible for the interference of foreign powers in Pakistan's internal affairs," he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 12^th, 2022.