Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan, former JI chief Qazi Husain Ahmed and Secretary General Liaquat Baloch on Monday condemned the shooting at the Saudi consulate car in Karachi and expressed grief over the death of a consulate official in the incident.
They said the incident was a conspiracy to damage Pakistan’s image in the Arab world in the backdrop of the Abbotabad incident. They said there had been an attack at the Saudi consulate in the past as well and the Pakistani government should have beefed up the security there and demanded provision of fool proof security to the Saudi citizens in Pakistan.
Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith (MJAH) Ameer and Senator Sajid Mir and Secretary General Hafiz Abdul Karim also condemned the killing of Saudi diplomat in Karachi. MJAH leaders said this attack was a failure of the Sindh government to give proper protection to Saudi diplomats even after an earlier attack on the consulate. MJAH announced launching a campaign in favour of Saudi Arabia.
JI proposes budget reforms: JI Deputy Secretary General Farid Ahmed Piracha on Monday urged the federal as well as the provincial governments to adopt concrete measures in the coming budget for providing relief to the people and also cut down the expenditure at governmental level.
Piracha said the burden of indirect taxes should be reduced and the salaried class must be provided reasonable pay/pension raise in view of inflation. He proposed a subsidy on agricultural inputs and electricity supply to the growers instead of importing potatoes, tomatoes and “opinions” from India. He said imports from India had been around $ 1.5 billion in the last year which caused losses of around $ 250 million. He said this sum should be provided to the farmer as a subsidy to increase farm production.
JI condemns attack on Saudi consulate
