Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator, Siraj-ul-Haq on Saturday called the ruling elite of the country 'squatter' who served the global financial institutions against the national interests, asking the public to make a collective effort for a revolution to end poverty, inequality, corruption, violence and exploitation.
"The political elite is the occupant of the country and a main reason behind the political, social and economic inequality in the country", he told thousands of charged JI workers at the 2-day Sindh Workers Convention being held at Jinah ground next to Mazar-e-Quaid. "The government has so far borrowed $11 billion", he said adding that the poverty was on its way to grow while the country suffered under development.
He said that the government was taking taxes from poor public while providing services and privileges to the elites. "Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah did not struggled nor millions of people who sacrificed to create Pakistan for the occupant political elite", he added.
"Once the JI comes into power, will end poverty, economic and social injustices and carry out land reforms to provide the poor with agriculture fields to help Pakistan grow", he asserted, saying that his party would do the land distribution in line with the Islamic teachings. He also blamed the agriculture landlords for the poverty in the rural parts of the country. The laborers and small farmers are suffering utmost from the unjust economic system in the country, he added.
The ruling elite don't have moral justification to rule the nation for failing to ensure peace and provide social security, he said adding, "Pakistan Steel Mills, Pakistan International Airlines and Pakistan Telecommunications were in tatters for financial corruption". He said that the government had failed to run the key national institutions and all were in deep financial turmoil.
"The country is rich with natural resources including water, coal and minerals", he told the convention that the corruption, financial misappropriation, mismanagement and exploitative system had brought the nation to suffer in term of economy. The governments were widely relying on the World Bank and not the national resources, Siraj-ul-Haq said.
"I call the economic terrorism the biggest issue of the nation", he said, adding that the exploitative system its operatives were responsible for the financial chaos, poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, inequality and unrest in the country. He said that the Islamic economic principals had a remedy for all financial and social ills. "Islam educates peace, equal rights, irrespective of creed, caste, religion and ethnicity", JI Chief said, adding that the existing banking system had been anti-poor and served the interest of influential people. He also termed capitalism and communism as failure to serve the humanity, saying that "Islamic rule is the only solution to the problems of human being."
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