ISLAMABAD (INP): Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court requesting that the proposed enquiry commission to probe the Panama leaks issue should be given full judicial powers to enable it seek total cooperation and assistance from all state institutions in this respect.
The JI chief said the nation had full confidence in the Supreme Court, and he hoped that the apex court would deliver such a decision as would make corruption something intolerable in the society.
The JI chief, in his petition, prayed that Panama leaks be treated as the basic document for enquiry and trial and thorough enquiry be made into the business and the properties of the persons and the families named there. He has also requested that the Federal Board of Revenue and the Election Commission be bound to present the tax returns and the details of the assets and properties of all these people before the enquiry commission.
The commission should also have the powers to collect all relevant information and documents from international institutions under the international laws and also to get the forensic audit of the entire record, he added.
He said the Panama leaks had become a noose around the neck of the rulers and those plundering public money would not escape.
Sirajul Haq said the situation demanded that the apex court immediately set up a judicial commission to hold thorough enquiry into the loot and plunder of the public wealth so that the plunderers were punished under the law.
Secretary General, Jamaat e Islami, Liaqat Baloch, has said that the national and provincial assemblies were enacting laws in conflict with the Holy Quran and the Sunnah and also the constitution but the religious forces would protect the Islamic character of the country and the Islamic laws at every cost.
Addressing party workers in the city on Saturday, he said that the Sindh Assembly had crossed at limits and passed a law restricting conversion to Islam which even the people in the west did not think of. He said the unconstitutional and undemocratic attitude of the secular elements and groups in the country was causing a strong reaction among the masses.
Liaqat Baloch, who is also the Secretary General of the Milli Yakjehti Council, said that the religious parties all over the country were holding joint meetings in major cities including Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta and a national conference would also be held soon.
He noted that the Supreme Court had rightly taken note of the government’s failure to hold census. He said census was a constitutional obligation and a government that did not hold census, had no right to rule.
