Demand to end gas crisis

LAHORE:Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Siraj ul Haq,has said that the gas crisis had worsened in the extreme cold weather and increase of LPG prices besides gas shortage was causing hardships for every household.

He was talking to the media after addressing the Talent Award show organized by the National Association for Education (NAFE) at Sialkot. Students and teachers showing excellent performance were awarded prizes and shields on the occasion. JI chief for central Punjab, Amirul Azeem, also spoke on the occasion.

Sirajul Haq said the people who had plundered public money did not deserve any leniency. He said the nation and the JI wanted accountability of the corrupt and the recovery of their ill gotten money. sHe said that the present government also included people who had been in the PPP and the PML (N) and were involved in loot and plunder.

The JI chief said that the present accountability system was dividing the nation. He said the government should not give an impression that the accountability was one sided and the NAB and the Supreme Court should also proceed against the remaining 436 persons named in the Panama leaks and the NAB should open around 150 cases of mega corruption lying with it. He said that the names of all the corrupt persons should be put on the ECL.

He said the present government was talking of the state of Madina but was not ready toadopt that path. He said that as long as a leadership believing in the Pakistan ideology came to power, Pakistan could not become an Islamic welfare state.