Transparent polls: A cure to corruption, says Siraj

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LAHORE, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN - 2014/11/21: Siraj-ul-Haq, head of Islamic Political Party Jamat-e-Islami, addressing the congregation during the JI party convention in Lahore. According to media reports, tens of thousands of JI workers and supporters from the country and abroad are attending the three-day convention of Jamat-e-Islami has that started November 21 to 23 at the foot of Minaar-e-Pakistan monument. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

 

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that transparent and completely impartial elections were the only way to wipe out corruption and to help solve the numerous problems facing the country.

Talking to newsmen in Lahore, the JI chief said masses were losing confidence in the elections and the present rulers had totally disappointed them. He said that if the corrupt rulers managed to escape even after the JIT investigation, the masses would take the plunderers for accountability on streets.

The JI chief said that the resources of the Punjab were being spent on a limited area due to which there was much disappointment and even hatred in the Southern Punjab. He said the problems of the Southern Punjab could be solved only by making it a separate province.