{"id":14759,"date":"2017-08-20T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14759"},"modified":"2017-08-20T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T12:37:18","slug":"siraj-ul-haq-says-corruption-and-the-state-cannot-go-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14759","title":{"rendered":"Siraj ul Haq says corruption and the state cannot go parallel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUETTA, August 20 (TNS):<\/strong> Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Siraj ul Haq has said that everyone should be held accountable for their deeds as corruption and the state cannot go parallel.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing to a rally here on Sunday, JI chief said ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would have never spoken against the judiciary if the verdict had come in his favour. \u201cWe reject all forms of dialogue with the ruling party which aimed to protect corruption in the country,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Haq said his party would further intensify its anti-corruption campaign against those who have been involved in wrongdoings by making wealth through illegal and inappropriate means. \u201cThe Article 62 and 63 of the constitution should be applied to all [influential people] as a common person cannot asses the actual source of their wealth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Coming down hard on ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, he said JI opposes removal of Article 62 and 63 from the constitution and would deter every endeavour to expunge the respective articles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who do not comply with these articles [for not being truthful and honest] should voluntarily give up the public offices,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Enumerating the number of civic issues including power outages and poor infrastructure, he further said that he will announce his future plan of action on August 21 [Monday] with regard to anti-corruption campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA, August 20 (TNS): Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Siraj ul Haq has said that everyone should be held accountable for their deeds as corruption and the state cannot go parallel. Addressing to a rally here on Sunday, JI chief said ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would have never spoken against the judiciary if the verdict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,46],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-14759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-quetta","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14762,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions\/14762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}