Jamaat-e-Islami to support farmers' movement against 'corrupt mafia': Siraj

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Siraj Ul Haq has urged the Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) to launch a nation-wide movement next month to save growers from corrupt mafia and assured to lead and patronise the board personally. "Sugar, cotton, rice and potato mafias have to pay billions of rupees of growers throughout the country while corruption is also rampant in all departments attached to agriculture," claimed the party chief as he talked to the core committee of the board in Mansoora on Tuesday.
"The qabza group [land grabbers] has also taken hundreds of thousands of acres of the government land while those dealing in agricultural inputs such as fertiliser, seeds and pesticides are also trying to deprive farmers from their hard-earned money." Kisan Raaj Movement Chairman Arsalan Khan Khakwani also gave a presentation to the Jamaat-e-Islami leaders on different movements to press the government for solving the issues being faced by the farmers in the past few months. He also talked about the salient features of a campaign designed to be launched next month against corruption.
Kisan Board Pakistan President Sadiq Khan Khakwani said he would try to save the farmers from the corrupt mafia and announced to take other farming organisations into confidence.
Those also present were Jamaat-e-Islami General Secretary Liaquat Baloch, Punjab Chief Mian Maqsood Ahmad, Waseem Ahmad, Kisan Board Pakistan President Sadiq Khan Khakwani, Kisan Raaj Tehrik Chairman Arslan Khan Khakwani and Kisan Board Pakistan Senior Vice President Sarfraz Ahmad Khan.