LAHORE, Apr 26: Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Syed Munawar Hasan has criticized the ruling alliance for deliberately delaying the restoration of judges and trying to deceive the masses by resurrecting a toothless and tamed judiciary.

In a statement on Saturday, Munawar Hasan said masses will never accept restoration of judiciary without restoration of chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhri, and will come out on roads if the judiciary was not restored.

Munawar emphasized that masses had given clear mandate to the two ruling parties for reversing Gen Musharraf's policies and restoration of judiciary he had sacked so that they could be provided with justice and their basic rights could be ensured. But the sweet dreams of masses began shattering after the ruling alliance made it clear that it wanted to continue Musharraf's policies and ready to work with him for the next five years.

Munawar expressed deep sorrow that it has been a tradition of all rulers in national history that they forget all electoral promises after getting elected and focus all their energies and national resources to consolidate their rule and wealth. He said present ruling alliance is also willing to sacrifice the masses for the sake of power and privileges. He expressed sorrow over the statements of federal ministers of commerce Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Finance Ishaq Dar that petrol prices would be further raised and government would not provide any relief to masses on this count.

Munawar said rulers have closed their eyes to the grave reality that masses are committing mass suicides due to poverty and hunger, while instead of providing them relief the rulers are busy in lavish dinners and enjoying luxuries at the expense of public money which amount to adding insult to the injuries of this hapless nation. He warned that it is unbecoming of the rulers of a hungry and poor nation indebted of 5300 billion rupees to indulge into luxuries and lavish expenditures.

Munawar expressed indignation over the surfacing of financial scandals of former rulers. He criticized President Gen Musharraf for spending billions of rupees of this poor nation on his foreign tours. He demanded that former prime minister Shaukat Aziz who plundered billions of rupees of this nation through big scandals of privatization, wheat and stock market crashes and his other right hand men like Salman Shah etc. to be put to the dock and tried for looting public money.

Munawar said those parliamentarians who were opposed to taking oaths from Gen Musharraf and put black bands on that occasion are now seen sitting with him on the same dinner table. Munawar said the nation is watching all this treachery and the masses can't be taken in now for any longer. He warned that people will rise against the rulers if the promises made with them were not fulfilled and the judges were not restored. He said masses were prepared to launch a massive movement which could be beyond rulers comprehension.


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