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Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has announced a countrywide week-long protest movement from Sunday against inflation and anti-people policies of the government.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, Ameer JI Sirajul Haq said that protests demonstrations would be held in all major and small cities. He appealed to the people to take a firm stand against injustice and be part of the JI movement to get rid of the ruling elite.
He directed the JI leadership to contact the trade and farmer unions, lawyer bodies, transporters, and other segments of the society to make the anti-inflation and unemployment movement successful. Media should support the JI to get justice for the poor people, he appealed.
“The government has made full surrender before the IMF. We reject the increase in petroleum products and electricity tariff.”
The JI chief said that the per litre price of petrol has touched Rs138 when a labourer was unable to earn this amount in a day. The medicines prices, he said, went up 14 times during the past three years. The prices of basic food items went 100 percent to 300 percent high during the three-year rule of the
PTI, he said.
Sirajul Haq said the ruling elite had nothing to do with the problems of the people. The nation, he said, should reject the status quo parties and start a peaceful democratic struggle with the JI to transform Pakistan into the Islamic welfare state. Already tested faces and parties, he said, could no longer bring any change. The JI was the only option left with the people, he said, vowing the JI would bring real change if voted to power.