JI announces nationwide protest against inflated accounts on August 28 – Pakistan

KARACHI (Dunya News) – Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has called for a nationwide protest on August 28.

Hafiz Naeem said at a press conference that people’s stoves were being disconnected. “Electricity is expensive and there are more taxes. Traders and people with salaries are worried,” he said.

He said that few IPPs had looted billions of rupees. “Why should the common man support IPPs,” he asked and demanded that electricity prices be reduced.

Nawaz Sharif and CM Maryam Nawaz announced a cut in electricity prices, which he said was a farce.

The Jamaat Emir criticised that they had reduced the 14 rupees for only two months.

He said that the Sindh government had a budget of Rs3,000 billion. “The Sindh government has received 62 percent of the money from the federal government. Karachi is paying taxes and the entire system of the federal government is working.”

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He said that if 14 rupees could be reduced in Punjab, why not in Sindh?

“The ruling parties are the product of Form 47 and MQM did not get a single vote in Karachi but got 15 seats in the National Assembly,” he lamented.

He said the party would force the electricity mafia to withdraw and that traders would also support the cause.