Siraj blames successive govts for economic, political crises.

SWABI -- Jamaat-i-Islami central emir Sirajul Haq on Saturday said the political parties, which ruled the country for decades but failed to deliver, lacked the capacity to address the current economic, constitutional and political crises.

He criticised those parties for blaming bad governance and corruption on each other and said they all were responsible for the country's current woes.

Addressing party workers on Saturday, the JI chief said the country was supposed to have the Islamic system of justice and public welfare but 'thieves' ruled it for decades.

He said the successive governments served their own interests instead of people's.

Mr Siraj claimed that currently, courts didn't dispense justice to people.

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He said there were separate systems of justice for the poor and the rich, so how things would work under such circumstances.

The JI chief said PTI chief Imran Khan got protective bail in nine cases within minutes.

He wondered if the courts would treat the poor like the PTI leader.

Mr Siraj said unlike the common man, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari, PTI chairman Imran Khan and leaders of other mainstream parties got relief in court cases.

He said leaders of the ruling and opposition parties called each other corrupt but got together whenever the need arose for the protection of mutual interests.

The JI chief said the Toshakhana, the state repository of gifts received by public officeholders from other governments and foreign dignitaries, was looted by the leaders of the PPP, PML-N and PTI alike.

He saidmembers of the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement and opposition PTI were power hungry politicians, who were striving to protect their political interests and didn't bother about the socioeconomic plight of people.

'Leadership of both PDM and PTI are...