LAHORE:Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said the government move to stop Parvez Musharraf treason case verdict is tantamount to defend the dictatorship.
While addressing the JI district heads’ conference at Mansoora on Wednesday, he said Prime Minister Imran Khan, who made an ill-considered jibe against the courts asking it to restore public trust by ending the impression about favouring the powerful against the poor, made another U-turn on his own stance. The PM, he added, made harsh criticism against the former military dictator in the past and now his team rushed to rescue the man who made fun of the constitution and destroyed the country’s harmony during 10 year of his rule.
“The government defended a national criminal through its act,” said the JI Emir, adding the incumbent rulers broke all records made by previous regimes of destroying the constitutions and institutions.
Sirajul Haq said the PTI failed to fix economy and handed over the country to the IMF. He said that unemployment was rising, inflation was unchecked, street crimes were unstoppable and corruption became a norm under the ruler of those who had claimed to bring real change in the country. Education and health sectors were at the verge of collapse due to bad governance, he said, adding the rulers also embarrassed those who backed them to come to the power.
The JI chief said the people were running out of patience and take to street at mass level to overthrow the government if its policies remained unchanged. He said the government could save itself from people’s wrath by making improvement in governance and held the supremacy of law.
JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim also attended the meeting held to review the organizational matter.
The meeting expressed concern over the silence of the international community over the human rights violations in the Indian Held Kashmir. It demanded that people of Kashmir who had become virtual prisoners of the Indian forces since August 5 (the day Indian government abrogated the special status of the held region) be given the right to self-determination granted them under the various UN resolutions.