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Capitalist polices of military regime condemned Lahore, Nov 9: The Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan has condemned criminal silence of military regime towards the problems of Laborers who were rendered jobless due to privatization policy of the sitting government and also enslaved due to anti-laborer provisions of IRO-2002. The party called for upholding merit in recruitment and giving interest-free loans to jobless educated youth so that their energies could be used in the task of nation-building. It also took strong exception to hike in extra-judicial detention by secret service sleuths and demanded immediate release of all detainees held without fulfilling the legal procedure. These observations were made by central shoora of Jamaat-e-Islami in separate resolutions on Laborers' and youth problems in its important meeting which concluded the other day here at JI central secretariat Mansoorah. Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Qazi Hussain Ahmad presided over three days meeting, which inter alia empowered him to hold parleys with other opposition parties to finalise modalities of anti-government drive and long march to Islamabad. The JI shoora resolution on laborers' problems deplored the plight of manual workers despite the fact they play pivotal role in the national development. "The capitalistic policies of the military rulers have literally enslaved laborers," it remarked adding thousand workers had been dismissed from jobs under the Removal from Service Ordinance 2000. Ruthless force is used to silence dissenting voices against this draconian legislation. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court decision about the privatization of Pakistan Steels, indiscriminate sale [privatization] of profitable state institutions is continued unabated. Blasting removal of daily wages workers from PTCL, the resolution termed increase in working hours [of men and women] from eight to 12, under the finance bill, an unprecedented blow to the working lot whose right to form trade union is suppressed under the IRO-2002 in sheer violation of the constitutionally guarded basic rights. In a separate resolution on youth affairs, the JI shoora expressed its concern over the exorbitant joblessness in the country. Nepotism and abuse of merit in government jobs is frustrating the jobless youth while on the other hand semi-government and government department are accommodating the ex-army personnel for job. The JI shoora urged to uphold the merit in jobs and demanded to revoke discretionary and rules relaxing powers of Prime Minister and Provincial Ministers immediately. It demanded that jobless educated youth should be given interest-free loans of rupees 10, 5 and 2.5 lakh to Masters, Bachelors and intermediate pass youth respectively. It urged the government to construct stadiums in every city so that youth can engage themselves in healthy activities. The government should help end illegal possession and control of public parks by the Qabza groups and hand them over to various youth organizations. A separate resolution also condemned extra-judicial arrests of the people by various secret service sleuths saying: "this trend has seriously compromised rule of law in the country. Every state department is bound to uphold this rule of law but in the back drop of so called war against terror innocent people are picked by sleuths from homes. Where about of such people are not known to the families and there is no FIR against them. The height of agony lies in the fact that no court of law is able to redress the grievances of scores of such families whose dear ones have been driven to unknown destinations." The JI shoora strong condemned such arrests and asked for immediate release of all the arrested. |
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