Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Jamat-e-Islami national and provincial assembly candidates blamed ex-parliamentarians for their failure to deliver in the past as they were not capable of raising their voices on the assembly floor to demand their constitutional rights.
Jamat-e-Islami candidate for National Assemb-27 and PK-69 candidate Muqtadar Shah said this while speaking to Meet the Press held at Landikotal Press Club on Tuesday.
They said that those who remained in government gave priority to their benefits and ignored voters and supporters. He said billions of rupees were transferred to foreign countries but put the 80 billion rupees debt burden on the poor Pakistani citizens.
He said Pakistani citizens must choose their representatives in the assemblies who could bravely demand from rights and fight for their dignity.
Shah Faisal said Jamat-e-Islami leaders and workers always with side by side to resolve local issues. He said their efforts in electricity restoration and provision of packages to orphans and other deserving people were known to everyone.
Shah Faisal said in the past governments have put a burden of 80 billion rupees in debt on the citizens in the past seventy years due to failed policies. He said those in the governments had swallowed public money and transferred it to foreign countries. He said none of the leaders has worked to bring peace to the country, especially in the erstwhile Fata areas. He said peace was inevitable for development and developing nations.
Shah Faisal said if was elected he would establish a university after the name of the great Pashtu poet Ameer Hamza Khan Shinwari. He urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to relax the border for business activities and strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation in various aspects including trade. He said friendly relation with Afghanistan was the main point of his party manifesto which would be implemented if their government came at the federal level.
