Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the government and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had joined hands to make the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) totally helpless as a dead body by clipping its powers.
Addressing a press conference at Mansoora, he said that if those who are involved in plundering public money did not mend their ways by returning the looted wealth, the people would chase them anywhere.
The rulers seemed to be anxious to become “martyrs” in order to gain public sympathies but the nation would not allow them to attain the status, he said.
He said he knew how to cure the cancer of corruption adding that the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) would present a list of those involved in mega corruption scandals before the National Assembly and the Supreme Court and demand the registration of terrorism cases against them. The party would also move a draft law against corruption in the parliament, Siraj informed. He said if the rulers tried to oppose the bill because of its numeral strength, the masses would take them to task.
He said the plunderers had green cards in their pockets but they won’t be allowed to leave the country without returning the looted money, and Pakistanis would chase them everywhere.
The JI chief said that the constitution made it obligatory for the state to provide basic facilities of education, health, jobs and shelter to the masses but the rulers were misusing the public money and transferring that to their bank accounts abroad.
He said that instead of taking action against corruption mafia and recovering the looted money from them, the NAB was bargaining with them and the looters were being given a clean chit. In as many as 50 cases, those plundering billions had been let off by paying off money, adding that the NAB did not have the authority to write off the plundered public money.
He said that in the past, the ruling elite had caused the split of the country and they continue to play with the future of the nation.
