Government itself to blame for unrest among public, Syed Munawar Hasan

LAHORE, Jan. 13: The Jamaat e Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that the public mandate in the February elections had been for the reversal of Pervez Musharraf’s policies and the government by blindly continuing Musharraf policies and ignoring the problems of the masses was itself causing disappointment among the people.
He was commenting on Prime Minister Gilani’s remarks that the government had been elected for a five year term but certain quarters were causing distress among the people.
Addressing the 5 day central workshop of JI workers at Mansoora on Wednesday, he said instead of reversing the Musharraf’s policies, the PPP government had gone further ahead in the US slavery, in the loot and plunder of the public money and was paying little attention to the problems of the masses including price hike and unemployment. Therefore, the government itself was to blame for the unrest among the masses and should not blame others for that, he said.
The JI chief said the country was passing through crises one after the other. A number of mafias had cropped up and the crisis of sugar, power, gas and atta were getting acute. When the people came on roads against load-shedding and price spiral, they were lathi charged. Loot of public funds was touching new heights. The Pakistan Steel Mills that had been a profiteering concern, was showing a loss of 22 billion. The people all over the country felt insecure. Fraud, murders and dacoities were rampant and the criminals did not have any fear of law. The country’s frontiers were being violated every day by US drones which were killing peaceful citizens.
Continuing, he said, Dr. A’fia Siddiqui, a respected daughter of the nation, was being inhumanly treated by the Americans due to the criminal negligence of the rulers. He said that the Pakistan government was not approaching the International Court of Justice in hr case simply because this would annoy Washington. He said, during the case hearing on January 11, Dr A’fia had expressed no confidence in the US courts as she did not expect justice from them. The US judicial system had been fully exposed and the US attitude in Dr A’fia case clearly reflected the inhuman and anti Muslim approach of the US.