Siraj says nation demands accountability of rulers.

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Sirajul Haq has said all the foreign loans must be paid back by those ruling elite and bureaucracy who took them without asking the masses, and the cruel practice of squeezing the blood of common people through heavy taxes should be stopped. IMF's 23rd programme is being implemented but the country witnessed degeneration instead of development which proved those loans were not spent on national development and spent somewhere else, he said while addressing a conference at Jamia Ashrafia and later talking to the media here on Wednesday.

He said the nation demand accountability from the rulers and bureaucrats, as country is gripped by the worst economic crisis in history, the world has reached Mars and getting benefits of Artificial Intelligence revolutions, but the country's 80pc population is deprived of basic needs of clean water, health, education, roads, electricity, fuel etc. noting that all claims of the finance minister proved false, adding the government still begging from IMF to prepare fiscal budget as the five finance ministers in the last five years served the interests of IMF and Washington.

He lamented that the country's security institutions, political parties and judiciary are struggling for personal interests while people are crushed under devastating poverty, inflation, unemployment and starvation.

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