LAHORE: Holding the present and former rulers responsible for the downfall in different sectors, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq sees no improvement in the prevailing situation without getting rid of the feudal and imperialist class ruling over the country for seven decades.
Presiding over a meeting of party workers at Mansoora on Thursday, he said the ruling elite hijacked the society and were responsible for the division in the country. A class-based education system, rising poverty, unemployment and ignorance were the gifts of the ruling class to the ordinary Pakistanis, he added.
Declaring the PTI government as the agent of the status quo powers, Siraj said the ruling party failed to fulfill even one of its promises it made to the masses during election campaign. He said the PTI was frequently lying to the masses about the improvement in economy by quoting the different reports. He said the reports on economy were contrary to the ground situation.
A common man, he said, lost buying capacity and could not afford two times meal in a day due to multiple increases in prices of food items. The governance was worst and the PTI was itself admitting a clash among institutions, he added.
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The JI Emir expressed concern over the human rights situation in Indian Held Kashmir, saying four months had passed to the curfew in the region but the world was unmoved to condemn Indian atrocities. He said the JI had started the “Save Kashmir Movement” from the day India abrogated the special status of the IHK and was the only political party in Pakistan which was overwhelmingly fighting for the Kashmir cause.
He said the JI would never allow the rulers to make compromise with India on Kashmir. He said the JI would hold Kashmir March in Islamabad on December 22 to express solidarity with Kashmiris and keep pressure on rulers to take practical steps in support of the besieged brethren. (With additional input from INP)
