LAHORE: JI Chief Sirajul Haq slammed the current government on Sunday, stating that it was following in the footsteps of the previous PTI administration.
“Politics is being converted into a mound of dirt,” he declared at an Iftar celebration at Punjab University.
The JI chief claimed that the oppressive system had been in place in the country for 74 years and that only the government and watchmen had changed, while the system had stayed the same.
“There was a PTI government yesterday, and now there is a PML-N government today.” No one would go to bed hungry if the Zakat and Ushr systems were applied in their genuine spirit to bring about a policy of self-reliance in the country, according to Siraj.
The JI leader expressed surprise at the federal government’s actions, claiming that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif dispatched his finance minister to the United States for negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as soon as he assumed office.
“There will be no need to go to the IMF if Pakistan gets an honest ruling party,” he stated.
Siraj denounced Israeli atrocities against Palestinians, calling the Islamic world’s response “graveyard-like silence.”
“We can defeat global colonialism with the help of a courageous Islamic leadership.” Residents of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) had boycotted India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he claimed, but our rulers were “insensitive” to the problem.
Earlier this year, the JI leader called for new general elections in the country, stating that the people should be given the opportunity to choose a trustworthy party today. Siraj had pointed out that major political parties lacked faith in one another during a demonstration organized by the JI outside the Sukkur Press Club, and that the JI did not trust them. He had previously stated the major political parties had lost the faith of the people and that they needed to go back to the people for a new mandate in order to dispel the country’s climate of distrust and despair.
In the same month, Siraj told a JI activists’ conference and later to the media in the Nasafa neighborhood of Talash, Lower Dir, that his party desired a system change rather than an individual change to turn the country into a true Islamic welfare state.
He argued that enforcing Sharia law in its purest form was the best way to solve the country’s problems. He also stated that the JI’s nationwide protest sit-ins against inflation, unemployment, and corruption would continue. “The JI would keep fighting for the abolition of interest-based economies and co-education.”
