KARAK: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has said that the rulers have shifted huge national wealth abroad which necessitated their accountability.

Addressing a public gathering here on Sunday, he resolved that the JI would not sit idle until the looted wealth of the people of Pakistan was brought back to the country from abroad.

He said the nation could no more be befooled in the name of democracy as problems of the people were increasing day by day.

Mr Haq said the rulers were escaping accountability, claiming that the JI was the only political party fighting against corruption. He asked the people to stand up against the injustices and corruption to establish a ‘government of the people’ in the country.

The JI leader said the newly-elected US President Donald Trump had announced an ‘open war’ against Muslims and claimed that one billion Muslims across the globe had the capacity to safeguard their holy places.

On the occasion, provincial JI chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan alleged that the rulers had become economic terrorists and justice was being sold. He criticised the National Accountability Bureau for not moving against the corrupt rulers.

He said JI had announced a war against corruption, adding the profit-making institutions were being privatised by the government.

The JI provincial chief claimed that six million youths had been addicted to drugs.

Mr Khan said despite producing oil, gas and electricity Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was facing gas and power loadshedding. He asked the people to vote the JI to power in the upcoming general elections.

Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2017