Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Sirajul Haq on Monday, while lambasting the government over what he termed "poor economic policies" said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had wasted almost two years of the countrymen.
Talking to media persons here, he lamented that the PTI government from top to bottom was lacking the ability to run the state, saying that it had tried to hide every failure to blame the former rulers but the PTI government was directly responsible for closing down of factories to skyrocketing prices of daily use items.
Siraj said that the PTI government failed to introduce an impartial and strong accountability drive and all the promises it made during the election campaign proved a "pack of lies".
A majority of the ruling elite would go to jail instead of staying in the power corridors, if a true and real anti-corruption system was set up in the country, he said. Corruption, Haq said, was the major problem but there was no check and balance system in the country. People, he said, were still waiting for the publication of the inquiry report into the sugar and flour crises.
The JI leader said masses were fed up of the emotional statements of the prime minister and wanted practical steps for their betterment. He said that the government was running the affairs on ad-hoc basis, which had led to massive joblessness and exorbitant rise in prices of essential commodities in the past few months. Masses were depressed and wanted to get rid of the present regime, Haq said, warning the rulers to address the problems of the common man or get ready to go home. It was time to build factories and create employment opportunities for the educated youth in public and private sectors, he said, adding the langar khanas and shelter homes were not the solution to the problems of the people. Haq said over 70 percent of the country's population was living a miserable life due to the flawed economic policies of the rulers.
The JI chief said the so-called mainstream political parties had turned into family enterprises. Not only the present government but the former rulers were also responsible for the deprivation of the masses, he added. The ruling elite in the past seven decades, the JI chief said, intentionally kept the people deprived of health and education facilities, and looted the resources of the country with both hands.
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