Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has said that legal hair splitting before the general elections was something common and there were always motives behind it. Talking to the media at the Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi Academy, he said that a game was being played to confuse the minds which would only harm national institutions, the parliamentary system, the constitution and the national unity.
Liaqat Baloch said that general elections on time were unavoidable and the political parliamentary parties should see reason and play their due role before it became late. He opposed the closure of PIA flights for New York and London. The JI central leader said that pollution was the main reason of smog and it was become a threat to human life and every sphere of life had been affected by that. However he said, that the policy makers seemed to be unaware of the gravity of the problem.