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Economic injustice is root cause of terrorism in country: JI Chief

MULTAN: Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Sirajul Haq on Saturday took a jibe at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, saying: “We are only given dates and Zamzam in gift while the rulers are gifted a steel mills.”Addressing lawyers in Shujababad Tehsil Bar Association, Haq said that there was sense of deprivation persists in Southern Punjab. He added that poverty and joblessness were also prevalent in the region and root cause of this was unjust distribution of wealth and resources.

He supported the demand for a separate South Punjab province, saying that the country will progress if south Punjab progresses and prospers.

Coming down hard on the both PPP and PML-N he said that a group in the parties was behaving like the slaves of East India company, whose major task was to loot and plunder the national exchequer.  Economic injustices were the main cause of terrorism in the country, he said and added the rulers horse were eating jams but the poor find it hard to manage both end meets.