Cult-based parties can't bring change: JI

LAHORE:

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has said family enterprise and cult-based political parties can't bring change in the society.

Addressing a gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan on Saturday, he said the nation wouldn't allow the government to accept the supremacy of the United States in the foreign policy and internal affairs of Pakistan.

He said Islam doesn't provide immunity to anyone, be it a marshal or president. He stressed the need to bring reforms in all sectors, adding that the youth are desperate for a change in the country. He said the JI would guide and empower the youth to transform Pakistan into an Islamic welfare state.

He directed his party's workers to respect every young political worker, no matter which party he or she belongs to.

He raised the question why the Punjab government had not held local government elections in the past one and half decades. The PML-N should value and respect votes, he said.

Some 26.2 million children are out of schools due to the flawed governmental policies, he added..

"A capitalist mindset is making the poor even poorer," he said, adding that a movement to change the system must also be expanded in Sindh to eliminate feudalism and oppression.

"We will not come to power through anyone's blessings but through the will of the people," he said, adding that corporate feudalism has now replaced traditional feudalism, enslaving the public even further. Jamaat-e-Islami, he said, will ensure that farmers receive their rightful share of the wealth created by their labour.