LAHORE: Pakistan Ameer Jamaate Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq has
said that the drive against
corruption must be stepped up to pull the cou
ntry out of poverty, ignorance and other evils. He was addressing the JI provincial leadership from Khyber Pakhtunkhawa at Al Markaz Peshawar.
Sirjaul Haq
said the people who argued that the provision of basic facilities was the real issue of the masses instead of
corruption, were actually trying to mislead the nation and to protect their ill-gotten wealth.
He
said that the real cause of the poverty, illiterac
y and lack of facilities of education and healt
h was corruption and plundering of the public wealth.
He
said that as long as the
corrupt elements were present in the assemblies, the problems of the general public would not be solved. He
said that Pakistan was rich with resources and the day it becomes free of
corruption; all its problems would be solved.
He
said that the Pakistanis working abroad were remitting 16 billion dollars every year whic
h was transferred back to foreign countries by the
corrupt rulers and their associates.
He
said that the total loan of the country was around 73 billion dollars whereas a much larger amount of 500 billion dollars owned by the plunderers was lying in foreign banks.
He
said if this wealt
h was transferred to the country, its debt would be cleared and the country would not need any fresh taxation.
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