LAHORE: Jamaat e Islami Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the JI was the first to approach the Supreme Court for the disqualification of the Prime Minister and by Allah’s grace; it has become successful in this case.
Talking to the media outside the Supreme Court after its epoch making a verdict in the Panama leaks case, he expressed gratitude to all those who had stood by the JI in its fight for the supremacy of the constitution and for justice.
JI Secretary General Liaquat Baloch, JI deputy chiefs Asadullah Bhutto, Mian Muhammad Aslam, Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha and JI counsel Tauseef Asif also accompanied him.
Sirajul Haq said the JI will be observing Friday as Thanksgiving Day and tomorrow, (Saturday) would be observed as “Yaome Azam”, to express party’s resolve to continue its struggle until around 450 people named in the Panama leaks were also brought to accountability.
He expressed deep gratitude to the honourable judges of the Supreme Court bench, the members of the JIT, besides patriotic and conscientious journalists, lawyers and political workers who joined the JI drive against corruption.
Sirajul Haq said that Nawaz Sharif was simply one of the numerous rotten fish while the entire pond was full of such lot. Nawaz Sharif only represented the corrupt political culture of the country, he remarked.
He said that the JI had started its drive against corruption in 1996 when its leaders and workers were tortured and sent to jail and even former JI chief late Qazi Husain Ahmed was manhandled.
He said that Nawaz Sharif had been disqualified despite his unlimited resources and the nation was to be thanked for that.
Sirajul Haq thanked JI counsel in the case, Tauseef Asif for standing by the JI during the last eleven months despite odd times.
