LAHORE: Jamaat e Islami Ameer Senator Siraj-ul-Haq has said that an independent and transparent investigation by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) necessitated the resignation of the prime minister from his office.
Talking to the media after addressing the office bearers of the JI Youth from Khyber P at Mansoora, he said that if the prime minister did not step down, he could influence the institutions.
He demanded that the JIT proceedings be held in the open so that the nation could watch. He said that closed door investigations would give rise to doubts.
The JI chief said that the entire responsibility of weeding out corruption could not be left to the courts and the masses should also rise and they should hold accountability of the corrupt through their vote and demolish the idols of conceit and pride.
Siraj, while talking about Chaman border attack, termed the attack at Chaman border a blunder of Kabul regime and said that the sooner Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered an apology for that, the better it would be. He said that Afghanistan and Pakistan required each other’s support and they must make joint efforts for peace and progress.
He said that the Chaman attack also proved the failure of the Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry. It was surprising, he said, that that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could not find a suitable person as the foreign minister. The prime minister should explain to the nation why there was no foreign minister of this nation of two hundred million, he said. It seemed the prime minister did not trust anybody except himself, he added.
Siraj-ul-Haq said that fresh elections sans electoral reforms would be a joke as the coterie of the corrupt always managed to reach the assemblies. He said that at every election, the general public hoped for a change of faces but they were disappointed as bigger thieves managed to return to the assemblies.
He said that he was striving to shake the status quo so that instead of the feudal lords, vaderas, capitalists, the kisans and workers could return to the assemblies.