JI blames Sindh govt for embezzling flood relief funds

Haq says will support 4.6m orphans left without social security net

HYDERABAD:

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader Ameer Sirajul Haq has blamed Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz(PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the generals for the bad governance in the country.

Addressing public meetings in Hyderabad and Badin districts, Haq said that the people who should have been put behind the bars in Adiala prison are MNAs and senators. He contended that the mainstream political parties as well as Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), are facilitators of the status quo and serve the interests of international financial institutions. "Despite their claims, the rulers have terribly failed in making the country a welfare state", Haq said.

According to him, there are 4.6 million orphans and 5.6 million physically disabled persons with no social security programme which can give them a decent life. Speaking at the meeting, he accused the political parties and the alleged corrupt generals of dividing the nation into sub-nationalities like Balochi, Mohajir, Pathan, Punjani and Sindhi. "They also instigated sectarian clashes besides ethnic ones," he said.

The JI's chief blamed the Sindh government for embezzling the funds, which were donated for financial help and relief of millions of rain and flood-affected people in Sindh. He disclosed that the leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and PTI separately approached him and his party for joining hands. PTI was in power in KPK for 10 years and in Punjab for four years, but instead of opening factories, they opened places for charity meals.

He recalled that the PTI came to power promising 10 million jobs and 5 million houses, but the party's government only offered chickens and eggs to the youth. Haq alleged that the land, drug, fuel, flour and other mafias have taken shelter under the mainstream parties. Criticising the PPP and MQM-P, he said the two parties are hands in glove when it came to embezzling public funds. He recalled that Hyderabad used to be a clean, developed and prosperous city some decades ago, but the successive rule of the two parties has defaced the city, citing overspilling sewage, garbage heaps and haphazard development as the nagging problems.

He said the people of Karachi and Hyderabad have been voting for PPP and MQM from time to time, but nothing was gained in return for those votes.