Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Provincial Vice President Haroon-ur-Rasheed on Sunday claimed that the country was deprived of freedom and alleged that the government was an agent of the West. He was addressing at the workers convention held in a private school at Mithakhel. He alleged that corrupt persons were ruling the country, adding that injustice was rampant in the country as the people could not differentiate being the good and the evil. He said that all the national institutions, including Railways, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Steel Mills were on the verge of destruction.Rasheed claimed that the JI was the only party which had opposed the government’s support to US in the Afghan war, adding that 60,000 houses have been destroyed in the tribal areas, 25,000 people have embraced martyrdom and 5 million people have become refugees in their own country due to the presence of US in Afghanistan.
