SUKKUR: Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan emir Sirajul Haq has advised all political parties to sit together and resolve their issues through dialogue and warned there will be no politics nor democracy in the country if they failed to do so.

Haq told journalists after having offered condolence to the bereaved family of slain Dr Mohammad Ajmal Sawand in Sukkur Society on Friday that the country`s history was witness to the fact what had happened in past after political partiesfailed to settle theirissues.

He said that politicians` prob-lems were different from those of people because politicians were members of elite who enjoyed all luxuries of life while general public had to bear with consequences of unbridled inflation, unemployment and breakdown of law and order.

He said that he had suggested to all political parties and stakeholders to form a caretaker government at the Centre and in all four provinces and agree on conducting transparent eleetions in the country. There would be chaos if elections were held only in two provinces, he cautioned.

He said that people had put their trust in JI in local body election in Karachi and Gwadar, hence peoples` mandate should be respected and his party should be given a chance to serve people.

He was of the view if the Chief Justice of Pakistan had formed full bench the entire nation would have supported him but he kept the SupremeCourt and the country on edge by insisting on hearing the case with only two judges on the bench.

About Dr Sawand`s murder, Haq said that the professor`s murder had done irreparable damage to Sindh and Pakistan as the late professor had spurned hefty salaries and perks in foreign countries and preferred serving his people.

He regretted that police had failed to arrest the suspected killers nominated by the bereaved family in the case and demanded that Sindh government and IGP ensure the professor`s assailants were arrested. If stern action was not taken against the alleged killers then other academicians and scholars would leave the country, he warned.

Haq remarked that law and order conditions in the province had gone from bad to worse and people were afraid even to walk small distances out of theirhomes after nightfall because dacoits had challenged the writ of the government.

He said that feudal lords, MNAs and MPAs supported killers, dacoits and criminals. The feudal lords had built their own private jails where they threw poor people, he said.

Haq said later at an Iftar party that the country was going through the worst economic crisis and its solution was enforcement of interest-free system.

He said the Sindh government had failed to provide relief to rain-hit families and growers whose standing crops had been destroyed. Where had billions of rupees aid gone as the flood victims had not yet been rehabilitated and their homes had not yet been rebuilt, he asked.

Haq said that his party was going to launch protest on May 1 for the rights of people of Balochistan. They had submitted an application to Supreme Court seeking release ofMaulana Hidayat-ul-Rahman Baluch and they hoped the Maulana would get justice, he said.

A day earlier in Jacobabad, Haq said at an Iftar party that PPP had been ruling Sindh for the past 50 years and during this period its leaders had become billionaires while people had become impoverished.

He said that PPP, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and all member parties of PDM and PTI had deprived Pakistanis of their basic rights to justice, education, healthcare and employment.

He said that those who had been ruling Pakistan for 75 years were loyal to their colonial masters and dancing to the tunes of America, International Monetary Fund and World Bank. They these were the same people who had sold Afia Siddiqui and Yousuf Ramzi and freed Raymond Davis and Abhi Nandan, he said.