Question:

Jamaat’s statements and its Ameer's visits to the Presidency before the elections indicated that the party had good opinion about President Farooq Leghari..... Later the interim government was instituted and actions initiated about accountability. How, with reference to accountability and the Pakistan politics, the party finds President Leghari now?

Answer:

We demanded the President to undertake "Ehtesab". Before November 1996, we told him that the People’s Party government had lost public mandate. The loot and plunder had reached the level that there was no justification for Benazir and its government to stay in power. It was also suggested that an interim government should be instituted which conforms the requirements of article 62 and 63. The President dismissed the corrupt PPP government, but he could not properly discharge his constitutional duty and was himself facing the shots. It was the result of rejecting our advice. Jamaat-e-Islami believes Mr. Leghari lost a golden chance and the nation was back in the mid of a crisis. Having lost an historic opportunity, the President, in our opinion, had proved himself to be a weak person.