LAHORE: The game played for Senate chairman’s election has made the entire house doubtful, exposing the real faces of those out to play such games, says Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Sirajul Haq.

Addressing a large Friday congregation at Mansoora, he said that the government had won because its purchasing power was more than the opposition, which is now trying to locate all those who have turned to be purchasable.

Stating that expecting anything good from these people was of no use, Mr Haq urged the masses to stop going round their bungalows.”The whole nation is worried due to economic exploitation as two per cent elite are controlling the 98 per cent of the resources. Poverty and unemployment have become intolerable and more and more people are committing suicide while the rulers are deaf, dumb and blind.”

Mr Haq said that the PTI had deceived the masses through the slogan of the state of Madina. In the state of Madina, power was not in the hands of an individual, any party or the government.

Instead, all the powers were with Allah Almighty and His word was the law.

On the other hand, in the PTI government, all powers are with the people claiming to build the Madina state. The constitution and the law were helpless and the legislatures had no powers.

He said that the JI believed in democracy but in such democracy wherein the divine laws are not violated and interest and liquor are banned. He said that in the state of Madina, there was no exploitation, the poor would not be forced to sleep on footpaths and nobody was denied justice.

He said that under the PTI rule, poor were dying and there was none to help them. This government was also protecting the status quo and it could not give anything to the common man.

Mr Haq said that just as those raising the slogan of “Roti, Kapra and Makan” had made a mockery of the masses.

Similarly, the present rulers were playing with the religious sentiments of the people.

He said the JI’s successful rallies against price spiral, unemployment and the IMF slavery had proved that the masses lost hopes from the rulers.

Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2019