Siraj lambasts rulers for country’s downfall

QUETTA (6 AM Report): Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Sirajul Haq said on Saturday the country was getting poor due to the lavish lifestyle of its rulers.

Addressing a press conference in Quetta, he said the inept rulers wreaked havoc in the country, while saying the people were facing starvation due to the wrong policies pursued.

Amir JI said the current political system failed to revive the economy. He added before joining the coalition government, PDM parties – including Pakistan Peoples Party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – were protesting against inflation.

He asked for the abolishment of the governor houses saying these extra expenditure should be spent on the people as a poor country like Pakistan could not afford this extravagant spending.

The JI chief said that the doors of the parliament should be closed for these people, since they are the “children of Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq”.

Because of them, 230 million people are indebted to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). He said that those with the atomic bomb and the best army in the world are forced to run after flour.

Siraj said that these people are imposed in martial law, and even when there is democracy, these same families are imposed, and now they are imposing their “princes and children” on the people. He added that because of them, 85 percent of Pakistanis are forced to drink dirty water.