LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami has urged the government and opposition not to politicise the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
JI secretary general Liaqat Baloch, in a statement issued yesterday, said that the Prime Minister should go ahead on this epoch making project in accordance with the consensus arrived at with the national leadership.
He said the CPEC was spread over from 20 to 25 years but the unnecessary haste and hollow claims of the government with its eyes on the 2018 elections were providing the opposition an opportunity to differ. He counseled the government not to confine its politics to the CPEC.
The JI central leader urged the government to also resolve the issue of Afghan woman Sharbat Gula on humanitarian grounds
He said the JI’s campaign against corruption yielded positive results and the masses had risen against the corrupt mafia. He said the nation had high expectations from the superior judiciary and it was hoped that the Supreme Court would lay down an effective road map for investigation into the Panama leaks and accountability of the corrupt.
He said that the JI Ijtema in Khyber PK and the Punjab had been highly successful and infused a new enthusiasm among the workers.