The Pakistani nations wants to get rid of corrupt kings and queens, said Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Sirajul Haq the other day.
Talking to media last night at the end of a train march of his party, he said people from Peshawar to Karachi had welcomed their anti-corruption march, warning that the days of the corruption mafia in Pakistan were numbered.
He said they wished to see this nation progressing and flourishing and they wanted to give them a society free from corruption and based on social justice.
Haq said that Pakistan had been in strong clutches of corruption mafia since its independence. He said now the time for accountability of corrupt rulers had started. He said cruel capitalism and corruption had ruined their homeland.
The JI chief said that hunger and poverty in Pakistan were the direct outcomes of corruption. “Social injustice in the society is on the rise and the poor is getting poorer. Successive corrupt regimes have even put Pakistan’s sovereignty at stake for their vested interests.”
He demanded a probe into the murder of 150 children of Thar who died due to hunger, malnutrition and lack of medical facilities.
He said the western countries were giving safe havens to corrupt politicians of the whole world. “The international powers themselves are promoting corruption in the developing countries to keep them poor and backward.”
He said the nation wanted strict accountability of corrupt leaders. “The masses will reject any toothless commission against corruption.” He warned the regime that people would take to the streets in Islamabad if they created hurdles in accountability process.
JI Secretary General Liaquat Balouch said that masses should join hands to defeat corruption mafia in Pakistan. He said the JI’s drive against corruption provided a ray of hope to the masses.
JI leader Asadullah Bhutto said now people were aware of the root cause of their miseries. He said the JI’s struggle would continue till all the corrupt kings and queens of Pakistan were sent behind the bars.
JI Sindh Amir Dr Meraj-ul-Huda Siddiqui said that corruption should be ended at all costs as the entire nation was suffering at the hands of corrupt mafia.
