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Siraj wants federal, Sindh govts to avoid controversy over Rangers’ powers

 

 

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said on Wednesday that the federal and the Sindh governments should not engage in controversy over the Rangers’ powers as it was not in interest of the country.

Talking to media personnel at a function marking the 33th foundation day of the Mansoora Hospital, the JI chief said that the position of the Sindh government was becoming weak as they had been seen prescribing conditions for granting Rangers’ powers.

He pointed out that all political parties had given a mandate to the government to eliminate terrorism but the government had failed to achieve the goal. He said the Rangers had been called in after the police and civilian authorities were unable to control massive level of crime in Karachi. The Rangers had restored peace in the port city within one year but now obstacles were being created in its way, Haq said.

He said that armed terrorism was the outcome of financial terrorism. He said the government should explain what steps it had adopted during the last one year to wipe out political, social, and economic terrorism from the city. He said a government which could not provide basic facilities of health and education to the masses, had no right to rule.

He said that the Supreme Court had observed that 98 per cent of the deaths in the country were due to diseases and as many as 38 children had died at the Children Hospital during the last couple of days due to lack of injections and ventilators. At the same time, he said, an Orange Train was being launched in the city with a cost of Rs 200 billion.

Sirajul Haq further said that Cardiology Hospital in Wazirabad had not been completed during the last seven years, nor was the Surgical Tower completed at Lahore’s Mayo Hospital in as many years. Heart patients at the Lahore Punjab Cardiology Hospital Centre were being asked to wait for ten to twelve months for their procedures.

The JI chief said that on the one hand, patients at the Hospital emergency were asked to purchase medicines from the market while on the other, millions were spent on the dental treatment of the ministers.

He said that the Mansoora Hospital had been started for treatment of the Afghan Mujahideen, and that the hospital was now providing valuable medical cover to a large population in the area. He added that his party, after coming into power, would provide free treatment to patients suffering from major diseases.

Replying to questions, the JI chief said that the people of Karachi had voted for MQM and denying the party the right to rule would be unconstitutional. Regarding the registration of different cases against MQM’s nominated Mayor for Karachi, he said that crime and politics must be kept apart.

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