The elimination of poverty and exploitative socio-economic system is imperative for uprooting terrorism, said Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq while addressing a massive Awami Huqooq (public rights) rally organised by the Awami rickshaw Union on Sunday.
Haq said that the people were committing suicide due to poverty while those responsible for their look-after were amassing wealth with both hands. The common worker and labourer of the country are busy in the uplift of the country while the rulers are busy in plundering the public money, he remarked.
The JI chief also travelled in a rickshaw for some distance and even drove the vehicle to show solidarity with the drivers’ community. The rally began from the Nasir Bagh and turned into a public meeting at the Faisal chowk. Hundreds of rickshaws and motor cycle riders joined the rally.
Haq said that the plunderers ruling the country were transferring the wealth earned by the labourers to their personal accounts in banks abroad. The elite class was least worried about the common man’s problems, he said.
He further said that these people always reached the corridors of powers by changing faces and parties. The ruling clique even deposited heavy amounts of IMF and World Bank loans received in the name of the poor, in their own accounts due to which the country’s economy did not improve but every born Pakistani was under debt of Rs. 80,000, he added.
He said that the so called elected representatives visited the people only at the time of elections but afterwards abandoned them for five years. None of the ministers or advisors would speak about the problems of the poor man in the assembly, he added.
The JI chief said that unless and until the poor and the workers elected candidates from their own class, their lot wound not improve. He said that JI was a party of the common workers and labourers, as he himself was the son of a labourer, and it would protect the rights and interests of the common man.
The JI chief demanded that the Pak-Iran gas pipeline project be completed to overcome the gas shortage. He said the project had been sabotaged under US pressure as the US did not want economic development in the country.