Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq Saturday has called upon the government to lift the ban on the students unions to help promote democratic values in the country.
Speaking as chief guest at the 62nd annual congregation of the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba at the Punjab University, he said the students were the vanguard of the Islamic revolution and they should be groomed for running the country.
The JI chief said the colonial powers did not want democracy to flourish in Muslims countries because dictators suited them most. He pointed out that in Egypt, the elected government of Dr Mursi was toppled with the help of a military general while power was not transferred to the elected people in Palestine and Algeria.
Haq warned the government at the centre and in Sindh that if they failed to provide justice to the families of 259 workers burnt to death at the Baldia Town factory, Karachi, their rule won’t last for long. He said that the JIT report had been prepared by senior officials of the state agencies. However, he said, unfortunately, the courts and the law seemed to be helpless where big criminals were involved.
The JI chief said that the students had rendered highest sacrifices during the Pakistan movement but after the creation of the country, feudal lords and capitalists usurped power. Politics was turned into trade and merit became a major casualty, he added. In fact, he said, the political pundits and Brahmans whom the Qauid-e-Azam wanted to oust from politics became the major power players in the country. Some of the families had made their parties as family affair while the major parties were giving full protection to each other’s corruption and plunder.
He said that JI was the only party that was truly political and democratic as had been acknowledged by PILDAT and other institutions.