Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said that Nawaz Sharif and his sons had set the worst example of arrogance by refusing to appear before the NAB courts.
Addressing a public meeting on Sunday, he said that a law that was not applicable to the rich could not be enforced on the poor as well. “We revolt against the system that does not allow the masses to ask their rulers about their sources of earnings,” he declared.
He said he would give the future line of action in connection with the Jamaat’s ‘Corruption Free’ Pakistan campaign in Islamabad on August 21. Siraj said that issuing threats to the courts in GT Road rallies and talking of winding up the constitution was not democracy. He said the attitude of the ousted premier would have been totally different if the court had decided in his favour.
Siraj said that a handful of families had taken the country’s politics hostage and the international establishment was at the back of these families. These families believed they had every right over the property and the honour of the poor and if someone asked them about their assets and factories and mills, they became furious.
“When we talk of accountability, they cry out that democracy was in danger,” he said. However, he said that the threat to democracy was not from accountability but from corruption and the system based on plunder. He said it was due to ideological corruption that East Pakistan became Bangladesh.
Pakistan which had been established on the basis of Islam, was being divided on the basis of communities, sects and races, he added. He reiterated that the accountability law should be applied to the generals, judges and bureaucrats as well. He said that no one could be allowed to frame the law of his choice.
He said an individual who could not prove himself Saadiq and Ameen, could not become assembly member. Sirj said that those talking of dropping articles 62 and 63 might demand the abolition of the entire constitution in the days ahead.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch said that Nawaz Sharif was ‘conspiring’ for a clash with institutions to avenge his ouster. The former prime minister wanted that since he has been ousted, the democratic system should be wound up and the constitution and the judiciary were also brought into disrepute, he said.
He said Nawaz Sharif would have to appear before the NAB courts as there was no other option for him. He added, ‘If the ousted prime minister did not comply, the law would take its course’. Baloch said that at this juncture, all the institutions of the state should move strictly in accordance with the constitution and NAB should file the references against the Sharif family within the period prescribed by the Supreme Court.
