Print Print edition: 2016-11-17

'Looters' have to face accountability: JI chief

Published November 17, 2016 Updated November 17, 2016 12:00am

Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq has said that those trying to depend upon forged documents to escape accountability would be disgraced and the plunderers both in the government and the opposition, would ultimately have to face accountability.
According to media cell of JI Lahore, he was talking to the newly elected district heads of JI at Islamabad on Wednesday. He said the nation wanted ruthless accountability of the plunderers and eyes are presently on the Supreme Court. The masses want all those looting public money to be exposed and every penny of unlawful wealth to be recovered from them, he added.
JI Punjab chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed and General Secretary Bilal Qurdat Butt were also present on the occasion. Sirajul Haq disapproved the PTI's decision to boycott the joint session of Parliament in honour of Turkish President and said it could be much better if PTI was present in the house on this occasion.
Sirajul said that apart from the present rulers, the era of Pervez Musharraf and Zardari must also be audited. He said those who had burdened the country under the 73 billion loans and enslaving the nation to the IMF and the World Bank, do not deserve any leniency and should face the law.
He said the rulers are still trying to befool the nation and spreading despondency among them by giving the impression that nothing would come out of the Panama Leaks. However, he said, he is sure that those who had plunged the masses into the mire of innumerable problems and snatched their pleasures would not get any respite.