Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the drive against corruption must be stepped up to pull the country out of poverty, ignorance and other evils. He was addressing the JI provincial leadership from KPK. Sirajul Haq said the people who argued that the provision of basic facilities was the real issue of the masses instead of corruption, were actually trying to mislead the nation and to protect their ill gotten wealth.
He said that the real cause of the poverty, illiteracy and lack of facilities of education and health, etc was corruption and plunder of the public wealth. He said that as long the corrupt elements were in the assemblies, the problems of the general public could not be solved. He said that Pakistan was rich with resources and the day when it became free from corruption; all its problems would be solved. He said that the Pakistanis working abroad were remitting 16 billion dollars every year which was transferred back to foreign countries by the corrupt rulers and their associates.