Jamaat-e-Islami Announces Nationwide Strike Against Petroleum Levy
The Jamaat-e-Islami party has called for a countrywide strike on September 3 to protest a new petroleum levy, warning that disruptions will expand to markets and roads if the government does not provide relief.
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JI announces nationwide strike on Sept 3 against petroleum levy
Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Thursday announced a nationwide strike for Sept 3 against the petroleum levy, warning the government that if relief was not provided to the people, the ongoing sit-in campaign could culminate in a long march on Islamabad. “The rulers have neither a vision nor the ability to govern. Their only vision is to loot the people,” Rehman said while addressing participants of the JI sit-in outside the Punjab chief minister’s house in Lahore. He said the pro...
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