General Secretary of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Liaqat Baloch said their party was in contact with other religious parties, and also mainstream parties like Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf for forming an alliance ahead of the general elections.
Addressing a party meeting in Daska, the JI leader alleged that transparent elections under the corrupt leadership of President Asif Zardari was not possible. However, he added, they would strive hard to ensure free and fair polls under an independent election commission.
Baloch condemned the increase in US drone attacks and urged the government to prepare a concrete strategy to stop the massacre of innocent citizens in these attacks. He also asked Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to stop following the US dictates.
Baloch said that neither his party nor other political groups would participate in an all-parties conference called by the MQM, which according to him, betrayed the people and did not carry through its commitments, besides pioneering the menace of killings in the metropolis.
Baloch held that the coalition government of the PPP, MQM and ANP brought complete annihilation to peace and calm in the city by showing adamant defiance to orders of the apex court and utilising the “Sindh Card” to pursue their indiscriminate aims.
The people have been left at the mercy of anti-state actors, criminals and saboteurs and their lives are in jeopardy. In an indirect reference to MQM, the JI leader said, the citizens have been forced to live in utter fright and a state of frustration by a political party that had pioneered the scourge of targeted killing. It is now demanding from people Zakat and Fitrana on gunpoint.
Baloch also said that enemies of the country were bent upon destabilising its economic hub, Karachi, through their touts and agents. Observing that all systems of governance had failed to ensure protection of public rights across the world, the JI leader affirmed that only the Islamic governance system could ensure respect and welfare of people and protection of their basic rights. However, insisted that his party had the potential to rid people of injustices and tyranny imposed on them by the coalition government.
JI in contact with PML(N), PTI for forming alliance: Baloch
