Jamaat-i-Islami rejects President's claims

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Ameer, Syed Munawar Hasan, has termed that President Zardari's claims of establishing supremacy of the constitution and the law, containing inflation and devising new plans to overcome energy crisis, as totally false and a trickery of words and just opposite of the facts.
While commenting on the President's address to the joint sitting of the parliament on Saturday, he said, as far as, the supremacy of the constitution was concerned, the President was the symbol of the federation and was supposed to be the above party politics. President Zardari, on the other hand, was holding the Presidential office as well as the party office despite orders of the High Court.
The PPP government, he said, had not obeyed even a single order of the Supreme Court and Prime Minister Gilani was arrogantly refusing to obey the apex court order for writing to the Swiss Banks about President's Bank accounts. During the last four years, he said, the resolutions of the parliament had been disgraced. The country, he said, had been in the grip of worse load shedding of electricity only due to non-payments to the power companies.
The electricity tariff had been constantly raised although the government failed to supply electricity to the masses in spite of the capacity to produce the requisite quantity of electricity. He said, the government had been printing currency notes of more than one and half billion every day due to which inflation had gone up instead of coming down.
The JI Ameer said that the President had attempted to take credit for abolishing the F.C. black law whereas actually the local Political Agent had been given far more powers even that of awarding death sentence or life term to an accused without any evidence and also to confiscate property and there was no appeal against this decision. Under the F. C. Law, on the other hand, the Jirga alone had the powers to punish an accused only up to 14 years jail.
Munawar Hasan said that during the four years of the PPP led coalition government, corruption, unemployment and prices had touched new heights, the country had been made a US slave, the masses were insecure, and the country's economy had been ruined. Major national institutions like PIA, Railway, and Steel Mills were on the brink of ruin.
He said that Most Favourite Nation status to India was tantamount to stabbing the Kashmiris in the back. India had been building dams on the Pakistani rivers and instead of protesting on that, the rulers in Islamabad were making friends with New Delhi.
Meanwhile, JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch also spoke at the occasion.