PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami leader Siraj ul Haq has appreciated the appearance of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif before the NAB court and urged the Supreme Court to initiate an enquiry against 436 other people named in the Panama Papers to weed out corruption.
He was talking to the media after participating in a Religious Harmony Conference at Peshawar. Siraj said that the progress and stability of Pakistan necessitated supremacy of the constitution and the rule of law. He said that in a country where institution and the courts were helpless before individuals and parties, only anarchy and disruption would prevail.
He said that from the very first day, JI had been demanding the accountability of all the corrupt people and of those who had plundered public money and the banks as the accountability of only an individual or a few persons would not help achieve the objective. He said the people who had properties in London, Dubai, and billions in Swiss banks should be made to bring their ill-gotten wealth to the country. He said the JI was striving for a clean and green Pakistan and urged the masses to join the JI in its struggle.
Earlier, addressing the moot on Religious Harmony, the JI chief said that a Muslim could not be biased or extremist.
Siraj said the JI was striving for the supremacy of the constitution and the merit in the country. He said that the country’s politics, democracy and economy were being held a hostage and that was why there were talks of clash of the institutions.