LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Wednesday said that everyone who looted the country should be held accountable and every looted penny should be recovered from them.
Addressing a party meeting in Mansoora, he called for comprehensive electoral reforms to prevent the entry of the corrupt into the assemblies in future.
The JI chief said that some people littered with corruption from to bottom were changing parties to find shelter. He said it was time that the gang of the dacoits and thieves was not allowed to escape. The nation knew the plunderers dressed in the guise of the elite, he added.
Siraj said the foremost issue before the nation was the recovery of the plundered wealth of the Pakistanis lying in foreign banks. The people, he said, wanted that the process of accountability should be also be followed by the recovery of this wealth and without this recovery, the process of accountability would be incomplete. He said that the recovered wealth would easily help in paying off the huge debts of the country and providing basic facilities to the people.
The JI chief called upon the Election Commission to ensure electoral reforms before the 2018 elections. Besides, he said, the electoral rolls must be prepared afresh on the basis of the latest census to enable the young men exercise their right to vote.
Meanwhile, British High Commissioner Thomas Drew called on the JI chief and discussed matters of bilateral interest. The JI chief reminded the British diplomat that the Kashmir issue was the incomplete agenda of the division of the Partition and it was the responsibility of Britain to complete this agenda. He said that the sooner this task was accomplished, the better it would be.
On the occasion, the JI chief praised the detailed and comprehensive debate in the British parliament over the Kashmir issue and hoped that Britain would play its role at international level for the resolution of the Kashmir issue in line with the Kashmiris aspirations.
JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, Deputy Secretary General Muhammad Asghar and JI Foreign Affairs chief Abdul Ghaffar Aziz were also present.
Published in Daily Times, July 6th , 2017.
