Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Sindh chapter chief Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui has said that free and fair polls are a must for bringing sustainable peace in Karachi, as growing lawlessness in the city is gravely harming the national economy.
Addressing a meeting of his party committee at the Quba Auditorium, he said the rulers during their five-year tenure have just given a bloodbath to the metropolitan. He said not only traders but citizens have also started migrating to other cities and towns due to perpetual lawlessness. He said every day innocent people were being killed in the metropolitan. He said only free and fair polls could save the city, as people could elect an honest and capable leadership which could once again convert the financial hub of Pakistan into a city of lights.
Huda said the peace of the city should be the first priority as without purging this city of extortionists and killers, the dream to make Pakistan an Islamic democratic and welfare state could not be materialised. He regretted that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was being held hostage by the ruling political parties. He said an independent and autonomous ECP was the prerequisite of free and fair elections. He said the flawed voters lists were not being corrected under the supervision of army, which he termed the first step in the rigging process. He said the opposition parties have staged a train march from Karachi to Rawalpindi to demand correction of voter lists, but the vested interests sabotaged this drive by intitiating terror acts in Abbas Town, so that those who had held hostage the people of Karachi could not be unveiled. He further said the nation should know who were actually behind the Abbas Town bomb blast. He also demanded arrest of the culprits and demanded exemplary punishment to be given to them.
On the occasion the political and party affairs of Sindh province were also discussed and many important decisions were also taken.
The meeting condemned the Lahore Badami Bagh tragedy and also passed resolutions on Bangladesh situation.
