'Corrupt system': JI announces sit-in protest movement from Feb 6

Lahore: Jamaat-e-Islami Wednesday announced to start sit-in protest campaign from February 6 across the country.

“We will hold 100 sit-ins in different cities in a protest against the corrupt system,” JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim announced in a press conference on Wednesday.

He earlier presided over the meeting of Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab northern chapter and criticized the government “for its failure to address the problems of people.”

The JI, he said, will hold the final sit-in in Islamabad on March, adding their protest was against the overall system which lacked capacity to deliver. He said the schedule to hold sit-ins in different cities was finalized. He said the three parties (the PTI, the PML-N and the PPP) proved the agents of the status quo.

The ruling party and two main opposition groups, he added, supported each other in every difficulty and they fought for self-interests. 

Azim was of the view the PTI government was the continuation of the old policies and it could not bring the promised change. He said the prime minister made false promised since the day he came to power in 2018. He said ruling elite had been capturing the resources for decades.

He said the gap between the poor and rich touched to the dangerous level. The two per cent elite was sitting on the heaps of wealth but the poor were deprived of basic facilities, he added.

The JI’s charities, he said, were reaching out the people of Pakistan in their capacity despite the limited resources. If voted to power, he said, the JI will make the real change.