Zardari-Gilani govt no more in country's interest: JI chief
16 January, 2012
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir, Syed Munawwar Hasan, Sunday said President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani staying in power was no more in the interests of the country and the masses. "There will be more price hikes until Zardari remains in the President House and the list of missing persons will grow till Gilani is prime minister," the JI Amir said while addressing a public meeting and a protest demonstration of Jamaat here at the Karachi Company on Sunday. JI Punjab Amir Dr Wasim Akhtar and Islamabad Amir Mian Muhammad Aslam also spoke on the occasion while protestors carrying national and party flags and banners raised slogans against the government and demanded that it quit in the national interest. A large number of JI activists and other citizens turned up at the demonstration to register protest against price hikes, electricity and gas loadshedding, unemployment and the overall poor performance of the PPP and its allies amid heavy rain and cold weather. Munawwar Hasan also criticised PML-Nís style of politics, saying PML-N chief Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had helped bolster the corrupt and incompetent PPP-led government in the last four years. "Why is the opposition raising fingers at the government when it is not ready to recall its own act of supporting the government," he said. "It is not possible for Zardari and Gilani to come into power and stay in power without Nawaz's support. He has left the masses at the mercy of Gilani, Zardari and their associates." Munawwar Hasan said the people would have to come out on the streets and bring a revolution as the masses did in Egypt and Tunisia. End.
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