ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan says his government wants to make Pakistan an Islamic Welfare State based on the principles of Riyasat-e-Medina and is working on fast track to achieve this objective.
In an online interview with a US-based Islamic scholar Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, he said that we have given the biggest welfare programme and this is the ambition of his government.
He said the fundamental principle of a civilized society is to bring the powerful under the law but, unfortunately, jails are filled with the poor and not by the elite. He said that since the elite had captured the system, people did not have the opportunities and a level-playing field in their own country.
The Quaid’s speech was inspired by Misaq-i-Medina, the same scripture that Imran Khan claims motivates him, according to a number of objective scholars.
Many of us in this country have read Misaq-i-Medina. Not many others have. Many people, perhaps because of their particular mindset, can give the impression that they are not denigrating its existence but rather how it has been understood. Comparable is The Quaid’s August 11, 1947 address.
Therefore, it would be appropriate for Imran Khan to table the texts of the two documents in the house following his inaugural speech, inviting members from both sides of the island to engage in a thorough debate and, in the process, develop a consensus constitutional amendment bill to replace the Objective Resolution with it.
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