Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan on Thursday called on the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to adopt immediate and effective measures under the law to prevent corrupt government officials and members of parliament from contesting in elections again.
In a statement, he said if the ECP strictly implemented the Peoples Representative Act there was no reason the people could not get rid of all their corrupt leaders.
He also urged the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to recover all the ill-gotten wealth from the looters.
The JI chief advised the nation to stand united against the corrupt elements that had drained the wealth of the nation. He said the nation could not afford to make more mistakes and warned that if the corrupt people were elected again, the country would enter a deep state of crises.
Hasan said the country had witnessed the worst form of dictatorship during the last five years under the garb of democracy. During this period, unanimously adopted resolutions of the parliament were discarded and the judiciary was ridiculed, he added.
He said President Zardari’s desire to see another five-year term was a joke and said that his government had been more loyal to the United States instead of its own people, causing widespread terrorism in the country.
Moreover, he said that Karachi had seen a marked increase in target killings, terrorism and extortion adding that while the corrupt leaders played the blame game, the masses continued to suffer. He further said that only one party was enjoying all ministerial posts and looting public wealth in Balochistan.
Furthermore, the JI leader said that such a bleak record of the elected regime had darkened the future of the country and it was time that people took a stand against such injustice.
JI urges ECP to conduct free and fair elections
