Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the NAB should not make itself controversial and cases against the arrested political leaders should be heard in open courts. He was talking to the media at Hala, Mansoora after addressing the JI 'Ijtema'.
Siraj said that when the anti-corruption establishment itself became corrupt, the NAB was set up but it must also keep itself above the board. The JI chief said there were no two opinions that the elections were rigged and all political parties except the PTOI had reservations about the election results.
He said the government had set up a parliamentary commission for probing in rigging but the commission was headed by a federal minister. He questioned how a commission under a federal minister could conduct an impartial enquiry into rigging. He said that somebody from the opposition should have been the commission chairman.
The JI chief said that the Foreign Minister had courageously presented the Kashmir issue in the UN General Assembly. However, he said, that the actions of the government should be in conformity with this stance. He said that instead of providing any relief to the masses, the PTI government had raised the prices of gas, POL and electricity which would lead to a flood of price hike.
Siraj said that the JI strongly supported construction of dams but these mega projects could not be built through donations and the government must allocate necessary funds for that. He said that the vast tracts of land in Sindh had become barren due to shortage of water. He said that the PPP ministers had amassed heaps of wealth but the plight of the poor had not improved. JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch and JI Sindh chief Dr Meraj-ul-Huda also addressed the gathering.