LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq has suggested to the government to show no hesitation to accept the Taliban government in Afghanistan, predicting that the Pak-Afghan relations would strengthen in the coming days.

He said the international community, particularly the Muslim world, should cooperate with the Taliban to bring peace and prosperity to the country.

“The victory of Afghan people is the victory of faith and passion for freedom over technology and power,” he said while talking to the party leaders at Mansoora on Monday.

The JI chief said Prime Minister Imran Khan had failed to honour his commitment to end corruption at high level as mafias were minting money and there was no end to the culture of loot.

“The poor are starving, joblessness is rampant and inflation is hitting the common man hard,” he said and added that the government had made a complete surrender before the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which had led to almost total collapse of the economy.

Mr Haq said the ruling party had burdened the common man with massive taxation but the powerful segments were not paying a single penny to the national kitty.

The PTI, he added, had to formulate policies of self-reliance and abolish the interest-based economy to put the country on track. He said the interest-based economy only served the objectives of the capitalists and corrupt money minting mafias.

Published in Dawn, August 24th, 2021

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