LAHORE: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the religious parties alliance, MMA, has been fully activated and it would also try to win over the other religious forces in the next elections. He was talking to the media after addressing a workers meeting in London.
The JI chief said that the past and the present governments did not have the capability to resolve the problems facing the country on internal and external fronts and due to this, they had lost the confidence of the masses.
He said that the JI’s drive against corruption had created an awakening among the masses all over the country. He was hopeful that in the next elections, the masses would reject the corrupt elements and elect honest and competent leadership having a clean record.
Sirajul Haq said that the JI wanted accountability to go alongside the electoral process. He also demanded of the Election Commission to debar all those who were involved in the plunder of the public money from contesting the next elections. Referring to the Khatme Nubuwwat issue, he said the ball was still in the government court . He said that till the time the report of the Raja Zafrul Haq committee was out and the culprits were named and punished, the unrest and hatred among the masses against the government would remain alive. The JI chief called on senior JI leader Prof. Khurshid Ahmed in London and prayed for his quick recovery. JI deputy secretary general, Muhammad Asghar, accompanied him.
Published in Daily Times, December 29th 2017.
