LAHORE  - Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has asked the Prime Minister to compare the facilities available to the people of European countries with the people of Pakistan before linking inflation in the country to the west.

“The Prime Minister has not presented the full picture in his address to the nation. He twisted the fact as he did in every speech. The fact is that the prices of food commodities are less even in Afghanistan as compared to our country. Inflation and unemployment rates are higher in Pakistan as compared to the region,” he said while addressing a meeting of the central leadership at Mansoora on Wednesday. 

The PTI, he said, performed so badly in three years that it even disappointed its supporters and “backers.” The government boat was sinking and the rulers were confused, he added. The JI Chief announced that JI would organise a march of unemployed youth towards Islamabad on November 28. The march had to be held on October 31 but postponed due to the political situation that emerged after the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan sit-in. 

The meeting decided that the JI movement against skyrocketing inflation, tsunami of unemployment and anti-people policies of the PTI would further expedite in coming days. The JI chief said the rulers should go home if they could not provide justice to the people. The PTI disappointed the masses and failed to address the problems facing the country, he added. In fact, he said, the PTI kept the status quo intact but made false claims that it was an agent of the change. The meeting decided that the JI would organise the party at union council level and youth and women would be particularly focused during the campaigns. Highlighting the need to start a peaceful democratic struggle at mass level to transform Pakistan into an Islamic welfare state, the JI chief appealed to the people to help the JI to achieve this objective. He said Pakistan could not go ahead with the corrupt system and there was dire need to get rid of the feudal lords and corrupt capitalists sucking the blood of the masses for decades.