Jamaat-i-Islami deputy chief Sirajul Haq, has stressed the need for enhancing the education budget for imparting best educational facilities to the youth. Addressing the annual dinner of the Mansoora Degree College, he said the nations advancing in the field of education alone could face their problems in different fields.
He said the education budget in the country was miserably low, while the defence budget was exceptionally high. Sirajul Haq said education had always been high priority with the big nations. Japan, for instance, had kept its educational institutions open even after the nuclear attacks by the US and the Japanese King refused to accept US slavery despite his defeat in the war.
On the other hand, he said, the Punjab University had been closed and the PU Vice Chancellor had expelled over one hundred students closing the doors of education to them. He said the VC was causing irreparable loss to the varsity by targeting the students in his endeavour to crush the Islami Jamiat e Talaba.
The JI deputy chief said that the passage of the 18th amendment was immaterial because all-important decisions concerning the country would continue to be made by the US embassy and not the parliament. He said the people ruling the country were least bothered about the common man's problems. He condemned the killings by police firing in Abbottabad and expressed solidarity with the people of the city.
While Jamaat-i-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has condemned ANP leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour's sarcastic remarks about Abbottabad killings and termed it inhuman and immoral. Expressing deep grief over the deaths caused by police firing on the people protesting against the renaming of the province as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, the JI leader said the ANP government's attitude was undemocratic.
He said the new name was not acceptable to the people of Hazara who had been expressing their sentiments for quite some time but the authorities in Peshawar and Islamabad did not give any weight to that. If the Hazara people had been consulted, the loss of precious lives could have been avoided, he said. Liaquat Baloch reiterated the JI stance that the issue should be resolved through consensus. He counselled the ANP to demonstrate flexibility and shun violence.