Jamaat e Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq said that the Supreme Court could play an important role in pulling the country out of the present crisis as the eyes of the nation were on the judges.
Talking to different delegations at Mansoora on Monday, he said had the judiciary decided all issues on time, the masses would not have felt the need to come on roads.
Sirajul Haq said that the record of all those who had got their bank loans written off, was with the banks and financial institutions and these people were not unknown. He said it was not possible for the masses to continue paying taxes to enable a few people lead luxurious lives.
The JI chief said the Panama Leaks had become the bone in the throat of the rulers who had not set up an independent judicial commission for enquiry during the last six months. Had the record of the rulers been neat and clean, they would not have hesitated to set up such a commission, he added.
Sirajul Haq deplored the arrests of political workers, and said that the job of the rulers was to open the roads and streets, and not to close them. The rulers are doing what the infuriated people could do well, he added.
He urged the government to immediately open the roads so that the difficulties of the masses come to an end. He said the right to protest could not be taken away from any one and the masses would not tolerate for long those who tried to snatch their right, he added.
Sirajul Haq said it was the JI that had started the drive against corruption first of all and it would carry it to its logical end.
He said in the past, the nation had tried feudal lords, generals and capitalists but none of them had been able to steer the nation’s ship out of troubled waters. Instead, all of them had created more problems for the masses.
The rulers had failed to safeguard the territorial as well as ideological borders of the country, and the county was split into two due to their follies, he said, adding that the idols of racialism, ethnicity and regionalism were once again being carved out and that the nation must be on guard against these, and elect honest and patriotic leadership.