Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said that articles 62 and 63 of the constitution guaranteed the solidarity and national unity of the country, and those who desired their abolition were out to destroy Pakistan’s solidarity and national harmony.
Addressing a big public meeting at Chakdara in Dir on Saturday, he said that if the present constitution achieved through national consensus was tampered with, the nation would never agree on a fresh constitution nor the provinces could be placed under the centre.
He said the nation would fully resist any move to drop articles 62 and 63 being made by the corrupt to hide their corruption and to escape disqualification.
JI chief urged the Supreme Court to bring all the corrupt elements, including generals, judges and politicians, to accountability and also take suitable steps to retrieve their illegal wealth lying abroad. He said that if accountability was restricted to Nawaz Sharif, the process would remain incomplete.
The JI chief declared that if CPEC ignored Malakand, it would not be acceptable, adding it would be gross injustice to deprive Malakand its opportunity for development.
He said that at present, the country and the nation were confronted with threats both from within and abroad. On one hand, US President Trump was threatening this country; on the other hand, some people wanted to change the constitution that guaranteed the country’s solidarity and unity.
Siraj, however, added that the nation would not yield to Trump’s threats. He said the time had come for US to pull out of Afghanistan, adding the US dream of building India as regional policeman would never materialise.
He said the JI had evolved the culture of honesty and integrity and it had the distinction of being the only political party that was truly democratic.
BANK OF KHYBER RIFT: JI THREATENS TO END COALITION IN KP
Meanwhile, parliamentarians of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Saturday threatened to quit the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government over the Bank of Khyber (BoK) rift, demanding that the PTI government sack BoK’s managing director for levelling ‘serious baseless allegations’ against its member and Finance Minister Muzaffar Said last year.
The party, in a JI parliamentary session, headed by senior Minister Anayatullah, said that its reservations regarding the Bank of Khyber were still intact, with the possibility to resign from their respective offices and parting ways with the KP government.
The session was attended by Said and MPA Haji Habibul Rehman, where the coalition party expressed its concern over KP chief minister delaying the decision to remove BoK’s MD.
Moreover, a decision to not grant more time to the KP government on the BoK matter was also made by JI.
