Chief of Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Siraj-ul-Haq, has said that the rulers had made the country corruption-ridden and were looting the country and the nation with both hands. While addressing an Iftar dinner in Model Town, he said that politics had become a game of the wealth and the common man could not even think of contesting election.
However he said that unless and until honest, God fearing leadership came to power, the country and the nation would be facing numerous crises. JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch and JI Lahore chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed also spoke on the occasion. Sirajul Haq said that feudal lords, capitalists and vaderas had taken all institutions including politics and democracy as a hostage. For the elite and the rich, the law was a rubber stamp but for the poor, it was a hard nut. The poor were getting poorer and the rich richer due to the policies of the rulers.
He said that in the country established in the name of Islam, the rule of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah had not been allowed even for a single day. In the Holy Quran, usury or interest had been termed as war with Allah and His Prophet (PBUH); however, this war had been going on in the country for the last 68 years. Then, how we achieve peace, prosperity and progress while being at war with Allah, he asked.