Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami has said that the government removed elected Finance Minister Asad Umar and inducted an International Monitoring Fund (IMF) agent in his place and handed over to him the keys of the public exchequer as well.
While addressing thousands of people joining Jamaat-e-Islami's Awami march against price spiral, unemployment and IMF slavery at the Mall Road Lahore, chief of JI, Senator Sirajul Haq, announced that the party would hold such march in all big cities of the country.
Thousands of women and children also joined the march which began from the Masjid-e-Shuhada and terminated at Chairing cross where the JI addressed the crowd. The participants carried banners condemning the unending price spiral, ever increasing unemployment and the government decisions placing the homeland in IMF slavery.
JI Secretary General Amirul Azeem, JI deputy chiefs Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha and Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, were also present. JI Lahore chief Zikrullah Mujahid also addressed.
Sirajul Haq said that the next year budget had resulted in the raise in the prices of essential items, including pulses, atta, sugar, cement and cooking oil and multiplied the miseries of the the common man. The prices of medicines had also increased tremendously.
He said the JI could not remain silent on the indifference of the government to the hardships of the masses. It would organize the nation against injustice and oppression and launch a full-fledged movement for this purpose. He said the next Awami march would be held at Faisalabad on June 23.
He, however, said the objective of the JI movement was to free the masses from the oppressive price hike and the IMF slavery and it would not join any campaign aiming at securing the release of people put into jails.
Sirajul Haq said that out of the next year budget, a huge sum of Rs 2828 billion would go to the payment of interest on loans. He said the real objective was to put the country into chains through heavy loans and then to usurp its independence.
He said the prime minister had said that governing the country was not much difficult. He said if the prime minister was aware of the hardships of the masses, especially hunger and poverty, he would not have uttered these words.
The prime minister, he said, had talked of the Madina state but now he was even uttering objectionable remarks about the Sahaba (RA) of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
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