LAHORE: Jamaat e Islami chief Sirajul Haq has vowed to continue the struggle for the rights of the farmers and workers till their plight is improved.
“Pakistan does not belong to a handful of rulers sitting in Islamabad. It is also the land of the farmers toiling day and night,” the JI amir said while addressing a public meeting at Bahawalpur on the second day of JI’s Kisan Raj movement. JI Punjab chief Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar was also present. Terming the rulers as “national villains”, Sirajul Haq said it is the time to bring all the corrupt people to accountability. The JI chief counselled the government to provide the farmers and labourers their rights at the doorstep, before the time they besieged the rulers’ bungalows in Islamabad.–Staff Reporter
“The country has to pay total loan amounting to 70 billion dollars whereas the wealth owned by Pakistanis lying in foreign banks abroad runs into hundreds of billions. Jamaat-e-Islami will recover all this wealth from the plunderers and spend it on public welfare projects,” he claimed.
The JI chief supported the demand for Bahawalpur province and said this was an old demand of the south Punjab which could not be ignored.