Missing leader: ‘Nawaz should have been here’
JI chief says corrupt leaders were bent upon striking down every law that threatened their selfish interests.
LAHORE:
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan said on Friday that corrupt leaders were bent upon striking down every law that threatened their selfish interests but their efforts would not be successful. Addressing a Friday congregation at the Mansoora mosque, he said that allowing dual nationality to parliament members was not in national interest. He said the bar on the dual nationality for lawmakers existed in several countries. He said the government bill to exempt the prime minister and chief ministers from contempt of court was a crude attempt to provide protection for their corruption. He said any legislation to undo the death sentence would be strongly resisted. Hasan said that the government had accepted US slavery and there was a conspiracy now to make the country a slave to India as well. The JI leader observed that PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif dashed off to London at important occasions. Now that NATO supplies had been restored, Sharif should have been in the country to lead protest rallies, he added. There could not be a greater service to the country, he said. He said the Difa-i-Pakistan Council would mobilise the nation against the NATO supplies. He was sure that the peaceful movement would end up in a revolution. Hasan said that the parliament had laid down certain conditions for the restoration of NATO supplies but the ‘US slaves leading the country’ did not care about that.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2012.
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan said on Friday that corrupt leaders were bent upon striking down every law that threatened their selfish interests but their efforts would not be successful. Addressing a Friday congregation at the Mansoora mosque, he said that allowing dual nationality to parliament members was not in national interest. He said the bar on the dual nationality for lawmakers existed in several countries. He said the government bill to exempt the prime minister and chief ministers from contempt of court was a crude attempt to provide protection for their corruption. He said any legislation to undo the death sentence would be strongly resisted. Hasan said that the government had accepted US slavery and there was a conspiracy now to make the country a slave to India as well. The JI leader observed that PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif dashed off to London at important occasions. Now that NATO supplies had been restored, Sharif should have been in the country to lead protest rallies, he added. There could not be a greater service to the country, he said. He said the Difa-i-Pakistan Council would mobilise the nation against the NATO supplies. He was sure that the peaceful movement would end up in a revolution. Hasan said that the parliament had laid down certain conditions for the restoration of NATO supplies but the ‘US slaves leading the country’ did not care about that.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2012.